I had an idea, but since it involves playing musical instruments and coding and I have no skills in either of those, I thought I'd see what other people thought.

I was thinking that since there are so many musically-inclined people on here, they could make a song. Everyone could make a track - say, 4 minutes long? - of them playing an instrument. Then all the tracks get laid on top of each other in the hope that it isn't just a cacophony.

Obviously, people could make more than one track, but it should be kept to one instrument per track. Then someone could write something that would let the user choose which tracks to play. And maybe fade tracks in and out at set times.

Any thoughts? Has this been done before (I'm sure it must have been)? Should there be a starting/reference track (maybe drums, or bass guitar) so that people can have something to aim at? Anyone mind doing all the coding? Is this a decent stand-in for the Xmas compilation CD that we don't seem to be doing this year?

I once wrote a song a bit like that, it was called 3 minutes of chaos and just had various drum loops, keyboard demos, me playing Bontempi instruments and sound bites from Spaceballs all layered over each other.

It sounded alright in the end.

Can I go last? Although I possess instruments, I have no musical talent, I can only play what I've studiously remembered through scouring tabs.

:/