JAMuary 2025
Are you ready for JAMuary? - Hardware Jams & PVC are happily teaming up once again for #jamuary2025 !
31 jams in 31 one days! Let’s celebrate music and show 2024 what a wonderful creative year it’s going to be !
👉 Remember, it’s just jams, have fun and don’t take it too seriously! If you don’t feel the prompt, join in with your own approach. There’s no rules, prompts are mainly here to inspire your process.
Don’t forget to post your daily jams on #pvc_hwj_jamuary and #petitevictorycollective, #hardware_jams so we can enjoy your music as well and keep track with the whole community. We will try to reshare as much jams as we can !
And tag your musician friends if you think they should take part of this challenge.
Much love from the whole community. #jamuary
Prompt
Jan 1st. Make the soundtrack for a walk through snowy wilderness
Jan 2nd. Make a jam with only a few sparse elements
Jan 3rd. Make a jam with unconventional drum sounds
Jan 4th. Make the music that plays in town in an RPG
Jan 5th. Imagine your grandma taking over your setup and accidentally creating a masterpiece
Jan 6th. Create a jam based on a postapocalyptic dystopian world.
Jan 7th. Crossover. Mix 2 stiles of music into one jam
Jan 8th. Black hole. What happens to the sound when it enters the unknown space
Jan 9th. Double beat - create a track with two or more bpm rates (real or perceived)
Jan 10th. Make a jam that mirrors your day: waking up, commuting to work, working, lunch, relaxing in the evening and going to bed!
Jan 11th. Palindrome. Make a song that plays forward & backwards
Jan 12th. Make a games final boss music, which changes as the boss reaches their final form!
Jan 13th. Make the darkest jam you've ever made!
Jan 14th. Cut it off. Incorporate silence as a key element
Jan 15th. Blast-off: start full on with no buildup aka the middle part first
Jan 16th. Make the happiest jam you've ever made!
Jan 17th. NOFX - Do a jam using no FX at all! Keep those reverbs and delays away, they aren't punk!
Jan 18th. Remake an old song of yours from back when you started out, but reflecting your evolved style!
Jan 19th. Um-pa: make a polka
Jan 20th. Make a jam with only kick sounds
Jan 21st. Make an haunted jam sounding like a hard rave in a ghost mansion
Jan 22nd. You’re aboard a spacecraft thats drifting into a planetary orbit and the systems are failing
Jan 23rd. Make a jam that starts slow... and let it explode
Jan 24th. A mysterious signal is found buried in old tech equipment, it's music from the year 2524. What does it sound like?
Jan 25th. Desert island. Make a jam with the piece of gear that you would choose to take with you
Jan 26th. Use you own voice in a jam! Talking or singing or whatever, let's hear who's behind the machines
Jan 27th. Commercialize - create a song exactly 30sc long.
Jan 28th. Natural world - Incorporate sounds from nature in your jam
Jan 29th. Take a moment to reflect on your Jamuary journey so far and write something introspective and moving
Jan 30th. Write the music for a car chase scene in a movie
Jan 31st. End JAMUARY with a bang by creating a high-energy, uplifting jam.
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