Steemit Open Mic Week 67 - Record Your Performance And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher

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Steemit Open Mic is an online, live music venue to give musicians a chance to share their music with the Steemit community and get their music heard. It is growing larger every week thanks to all of you.

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.

NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to enter, recently there have been far too many entries of singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason entries without some musical instrument being performed will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE


If you want to sing only go enter the Karaoke Contest Week 22 --- by @killerwhale

Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 67 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 12th of January
  • Each week the contest starts on Sunday and ends on Friday. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER BEFORE SUNDAY
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 67 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 67 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live musical performances only specifically made for this contest. A musical instrument must be played in your performance.
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.

NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to enter, recently there have been far too many entries of singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason entries without some musical instrument being performed will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE

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

Dtube Does Not Work For Entering Steemit Open Mic Or The Open Mic Songwriters Challenge --- by @luzcypher

Prizes

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

Victor Hugo

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It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 67" 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

Steemit Open Mic Is Growing And Expanding And A Call For A Dedicated Open Mic Website --- by @luzcypher

Behind The Scenes Look At The Steemit Open Mic Selection Process How We Pick The Top 5 Entries

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 67

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 66 will be announced **, Monday, January 8th, 2018 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 67" AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO

  • We're looking for real live musical performances for this contest. Some people have posted old videos from YouTube and it's difficult to verify that it's really them performing. 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 67 at the start of it.

  • Musical performances with a live musical instrument accompaniment only. Singing karaoke will not qualify.

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 67" 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 67 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 67 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 67.

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

  • DO NOT USE DTUBE FOR OPEN MIC Here is why

  • 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 12th JANUARY 2018). 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.

NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to enter, recently there have been far too many entries of singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason entries without some musical instrument being performed will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE

  • Steemit Open Mic judges will deliberate 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place based on the selected performances.

We Are Thinking Of Making Some Changes To The Rewards For Steemit Open Mic --- by @luzcypher

  • Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:
  • 1st place: 120 Steem
  • 2nd place: 60 Steem
  • 3rd place: 40 of Steem
  • 4th place: 40 of Steem
  • 5th place: 40 of Steem

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.

[![steemit_open_mic_week_67.png](https://s17.postimg.org/utg3e1njz/steemit_open_mic_week_67.png)](https://postimg.org/image/5nf577m9n/)

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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 12th of January
  • Each week the contest starts on Sunday and ends on Friday. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER BEFORE SUNDAY
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 67 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 67 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest.** A musical instrument must be involved in the performance, NO KARAOKE**
  • 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

NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to enter, recently there have been far too many entries of singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason entries without some musical instrument being performed will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE

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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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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Hey Guys, here's my entry. Thanks to Luzcypher and the openmic team for keeping this disco ball rockin and rollin

https://steemit.com/openmic/@cryptastic/steemit-open-mic-week-67-fire-on-the-mountain-cover

And now for something completely different!

This is a slightly high tech endeavour and is my first attempt at not only recording myself and guitar with a mic and very limited audio hardware, but also trying out a green screen approach so that I can accompany myself on the drum. Since I live on the side of a mountain in India its hard to find people to play with!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@eco-alex/steemit-open-mic-week-67-bajrangi-hanuman-bhajan-with-self-accompaniment

Nicely done! I've thought about looping live but not recording myself live like that. That's great what you(s) did there.

Thanks a lot! it wasnt too hard to play it with headphones.. but the synching tooka bit of time to get right.. it IS fun!

Sounds really good. We had to make some changes to the rules that you can read in this post.

It states: NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to enter, recently there have been far too many entries of singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason entries without some musical instrument being performed will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE

This, however, is a very good, musical performance so we'll let it slide.

Ray, the solution here is to only do your originals on Open Mic. The music in the background is leased by you and they are your songs. That cannot be considered Karaoke as they are your original pieces.

Hey guys, happy new year to all of you (yeah i know iam sometimes late ;) )
This is my first entry for quite a while and an acoustic cover of Lest we forget from The Brothers Bright
Thanks alot for listening ;)

Yours
Jan

Esteemed Steemians,

Here is my reinterpretation of the evergreen Blue Moon, originally composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1933, for the STEEMIT open mic week contest #67. I learned to play this song in my first band and it has always played an important role in my life since then, although its meaning has changed over time. Do you also have different associations with this song? Drop a comment below if you do. I wish everyone a great week!

Love this song since I first listen to it in Grease

Then we share something :) Thank you!

Hey nice back ground, good sound.. Thumbs up

hey @etemi thank you, that's so kind of you :)

Love this song! Really enjoyed listening. Keep it up.

Thank you so much for the kind words 😊

Nice performance. Thanks for entering.

Thanks my friend, I appreciate it

hi guys, here is my entry for the week.
really excited about this one
https://steemit.com/openmic/@klynic/steemit-open-mic-week-67-original-song-let-it-go-with-onomeakeni

The first in a series of "unofficial" entries to help beginners, newcomers, and longstanding entrants alike to better their experience on the Open-Mic platform.

Thank you all for your participation and cooperation as we all strive to make this community the best that it can be!

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https://steemit.com/openmic/@passion-ground/steemit-open-mic-week-67-or-unofficial-or-open-mic-tips-and-tricks-tom-petty-s-breakdown-instrumental-guitar-play-along

Thank you to @luzcypher and @pfunk and all the awesome people that make this possible. You're keeping music alive :) Here is my entry.

Those lower tones man, money money money.

AMAZING song writing. I could hear this song in so many ways. You could make it really poppy, or get a 4 man band behind jamming out, you could go all ed sheeran on it. That's when you know you got a good one on your hands.

Amazing!

Thanks @jamesgetsit - love your user name and glad you "got" my music. Appreciate your comments so much and as I also produce EDM I'm glad you also see my music in so many ways

Yea, you're very welcome. Listening to it again, I can see it again. How you write makes it really adaptable. It's really really good.

Thanks for entering. Enjoying your music and love your voice.

Thank you @luzcypher. Great to hear that you are enjoying my music and my voice. So happy to have been placed this week

Nice one dear..

Thank you so much @etemi

...nice job...it's a really good song...

Thanks @luzcypher and @pfunk for organising this competition week in week out without fail! Here's my entry for this week. Hope you enjoy it! :)

😍NICEEEEEE. ALL THE BEST💪SUPPORT SUPPORT!!!!!

Good luck and all the best Caleb!

Die hard fans here!!!!!!!!! 🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️
All the best caleb!! Cheering for you :)))))

Support ya all the way, @calebleejl !! Best of luck

Good job bro!! Hope you will win! :)