Steemit Open Mic Week 56 - Record Your Performance And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher

in #openmic7 years ago (edited)

I want to thank all the talented people that have made the Open Mic contest such a joy to host. It is a pleasure listening to everyone's music and getting to know you guys. Steemit is SO cool like that.

Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 56 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

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Steemit Open Mic Rules

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 27th of October
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 56 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 56 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.

Entries must follow these rules to earn prizes. For a more in-depth understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

Prizes

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 56" at the beginning of your recorded video and as the first words of your post title. Posts without that at the beginning of the title are hard to find in the feed and we may miss your post. Posts without those words spoken in the beginning of your live, recorded video do not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song by you it is very important you put the word "original" in the title and "originalmusic" as the second tag of your post

Here is an example of a correctly titled post.

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These requirements make it easier for judges and curators to find your posts and reward you for original songs. Ignoring these requirements only hurt your chances of earning rewards.

Steemit Open Mic News

Creamy And Delicious 1000 Thank You S For Helping Me Win A Ticket From Quinneaker To Steemfest2 --- by @luzcypher

Behind The Scenes Look At The Steemit Open Mic Selection Process How We Pick The Top 3 Entries --- by @luzcypher

Are There Enough Songwriters On Steemit To Host A Songwriting Contest To Win A New Guitar --- by @luzcypher

Steemit Open Mic Week 54 See Who Played Open Mic And Vote For Your Favorite Steemian Musicians --- by @luzcypher

You can also post your Steemit Open Mic link to Steemit Open Mic Post Promotion channel by join us at the Steemit Local Musicians Society on Discord and get more upvotes for your entry. Here is the invite code

Steemit Open Mic Week 56

Thanks for supporting, upvoting, Resteeming and entering Steemit Open Mic, a community of music lovers for music lovers and musicians.

2 Votes = Win Win

You can help support Steemit Open Mic by making sure to vote two times.

  • Once on this post so the payouts for the winners will make this contest self-supporting. We're very grateful @pfunk is helping out right now, but helping this post with upvotes gives more rewards to the winners and the contest will be self-supporting.

  • And vote a 2nd time on the link of your favorite entry's post found in the comments below. This will help support all the musicians that entered, even if they didn't win the contest.

  • In fact, some entries earned very well, even though they didn't win. And that's good because musicians need to eat.

**Winners from week 55 will be announced **, Monday, October 23rd, 2017 so be sure to follow @luzcypher for updates and thanks for everyone that entered, upvoted and resteemed Steemit Open Mic.

Steemit Open Mic Process

Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the Steemit Open Mic contest:-

  • Need to promote community participation in the spirit of Steemit Open Mic night.

  • So.. Steemit Open Mic submissions in comments, community voting and reblogging are encouraged.

  • However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Steemit Open Mic night.

  • So.. community voting as the first filter, before internal voting.
  • Another problem: late submissions are usually disadvantaged as they get less attention on the contest post.
  • So.. we've tried to mitigate such a problem by including unique votes of Steemit Open Mic submissions in their own blog posts.
  • IT IS CRUCIAL WHEN YOU RECORD YOUR VIDEO THAT YOU SAY "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 56" AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO We're looking for real live performances for this contest. Some people have posted old videos from YouTube and it's difficult to verify that it's really them performing. In the future they will be disqualified from the contest.

  • If you want a chance to earn the prize, make a new video and say STEEMIT OPEN MIC Week 56 at the start of it.

  • You can sing acapella if you don't play an instrument or sing to a recording if you want and still enter Open Mic.

How To Enter Steemit Open Mic Night

  • In a well lit quiet room, use your cell phone to record your performance. See recording tips here and here

  • SAY THE WORDS "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 56" AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO

  • Upload your performance to YouTube or other video hosting site.

  • Create a post on your own Steemit account pasting the URL of your uploaded video.

  • IMPORTANT: THE FIRST WORDS IN YOUR POST MUST READ: STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 56 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 56 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 56.

  • VERY IMPORTANT: THE FIRST TAG ON YOUR POST MUST BE openmic All one word. No spaces.

  • POST THE LINK TO YOUR POST IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST. This will increase your exposure and votes while increasing the amount of prize money AND WILL LET US KNOW YOU HAVE ENTERED

Judging, and Contest Prize

  • Submit your performance in the comment / reply section by 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday 27th OCTOBER 2017). Find your UTC time here.
  • You may only submit 1 (one) entry per week.

  • Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value.

  • Steemit Open Mic judges will deliberate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place based on the selected performances.
  • Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:
  • 1st place: 50% of Steem Prize.
  • 2nd place: 25% of Steem Prize.
  • 3rd place: 25% of Steem Prize.

ANY ADDITION PRIZES DONATED TO STEEMIT OPEN MIC WILL BE SPLIT WITH THE SAME PERCENTAGES LISTED ABOVE

300 Steem Prize

Images

You can use any images you want on your blog when you enter Steemit Open Mic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the Steemit Open Mic Contest you may also use this image below.

Just copy and paste this code as the first image on your blog post.

https://i.imgsafe.org/cd/cdc10cf01c.png

How To Get More Views To Your Entry

You can help get more views to your Steemit Open Mic entry and help grow the contest by Tweeting your blog post. You can also:

  1. Steemit Group 1
  2. Steemit Group 2

Disclaimer

  • Make sure performances are your performance.

  • The song does not have to be original, only your performance of the song.

  • The Steemit Open Mic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading.

Remember to follow these rules so we can find and reward your post.

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 27th of October
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 56 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 56 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.
  • If your song is an original song then add the word "Original" somewhere in your title

For a fuller understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

New Music Category Communities

Music Category communities are coming together on Steemit and if you're a music lover, please show support and join in the fun. Here are a few new places to find great music.

Suggestion: openmic must be the first tag to enter open mic, but adding other music-related tags (such as music, music-trail) may help your post get more attention and perhaps even get curated by those music curators.

If your song is an original song, add orginalmusic as your 2nd tag. This will help curators know it is an original song which currently pays a Steem bonus to you.

Thank you all for the participation!

Thank you for the positive support from the Steemit community and special thanks to @kevinwong for his guidance, encouragement and support and @verbal-d for writing a song that inspired the idea and @pfunk for helping and supporting Open Mic.

Please contact @luzcypher in SteemitChat for any further questions you may have and you can post your entry there too. https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic

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Translation courtesy of @lizanomadsoul

We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of the Steemit music community!

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My first ever entry to this competition. Really enjoyed recording 'We are the Babies!' with my son Esteban this morning. Who currently has Rubella.

This song was stuck in my head all night! Check it out; it's pretty awesome, and there's an adorable little guy!

Thanks buddy. We were at it again this morning.

A great distraction from that darn Bob Le Train!

And if you haven't seen it yet (and you want to MELT with cuteness), check out my son as he totally unprompted says he has an original song for Steemit Open Mic Week 54. I am going to have to have a chat with him about properly citing his source material, as I am pretty sure the ABC song is not in fact original material written by him, but I think he nails the performance LOL Much love - Carl
https://steemit.com/openmic/@carlgnash/one-thing-two-songs-monster-truck-and-steemit-open-mic-week-54-abcd

He deserves to win 😳

I tend to think that same thing, week after week. Such an impressive singer-songwriter. Just needs a percussionist, and maybe a bassist. Heck, he might round up a full support crew like these dudes and crowds will pay to see them play.


Grateful Dead band.

This made me smile! Looks like the little one wants to get involved as well :)

you're right, its blatant plagiarism, but damn, he plays it SO much better than the original it might as well be his now.... bringing up a little legend there gnashster :)

Hi @luzcypher, thanks for this wonderful contest, it's my first presentation. I hope you like it!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@jesusman12/steemit-open-mic-week-56-summertime-cover-standar-jazz-no-piano

My oh my nicely done. One of my favorite classics of all time. You hotz brother!

That was amazing! Your rhythm is impeccable. Well done! Followed.

I wrote another original this week! It's called The Conspiracy Song!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@chrisroberts/open-mic-week-56-original-the-conspiracy-song

My entry for this week @luzcypher! I'm still going!!

Oh very smooth and touching. Love the delivery of this song! Well done!

This is an amazing performance. Looks pretty effortless.

Thanks @luzcypher and @pfunk for hosting another week of open mic. Can't wait to enjoy all the good music this week.

Here's my entry for week #56. Cover of Sunday Morning by Maroon 5.

So good to hear you singing Sunday morning on this Sunday morning. Thanks

Very well done, sir! Your trumpeting takes me back...

Thanks, you're videos are always great! Well done especially with the STEEMIT song for the @talentchallenge

So proud of you making your first submission. You were jammin'! Time for me to get mine in now!

Nice job! I liked the harmonies.