Steemit Music League Challenge Week #9
Vocalists, rappers, beatboxers, producers and musicians of any kind a new theme is ready to go for this week's Steemit Music League Challenge.
The SML Challenge was created to provide an additional avenue for the musicians of Steemit who are chasing their dreams to be highlighted and earn some additional recognition, feedback, and rewards.
As a result we also now have an awesome interactive Discord Channel for everyone to come together, interact, learn, from one another, and ask questions.
We also have SMA Radio where you can play music and listen to live DJing and jam sessions by Steemians such as @seveaux and @beatseb.
To join the Steemit Music Alliance Discord channel go here: https://discord.gg/na8W5Wr
Here are the details of the Steemit Music League Challenge Week Nine:
This week's theme is:
Ancient Civilizations
Our world is built on many of the lessons learned by the ancient civilizations spanning from Mesopotamia, to the Incas & the Aztecs, to the Ancient Egyptians, and many more. This week's theme is homage to these incredible civilizations that helped form the civilizations we have today.
This leaves a lot of room for inspiration from the daily life and the sounds & vibes from these civilizations.
For example,
Vocalists and rappers can have a message about the times during these civilizations or how they inspired life today. Or whatever resonates with you from this Ancient Civilization theme.
Producers can create and/or sample the incredible sounds and music from these civilizations or however this theme resonates with them.
Much love and respect to these Ancient Civilizations who set the ground for the many generations to come. Let's see what the community can create in homage in these great Ancient Civilizations.
Here is some more content for inspiration:
All you have to do is submit an original entry based off of the theme of the week using the tag #smlchallenge and/or comment the entry on any SML Challenge posts.
Any type of music passion from singing to producing and everything in between is welcome. We are looking forward to be able to help these Steemians in the music community shine and receive the recognition and feedback they deserve.
You have until Friday night, December 15th to submit your entries with winners will be announced Saturday, December 16th.
The entries will be judged off of the following:
- Sound Quality,
- Technicality,
- Creativity, and
- Relevance to theme
The prize pool is as follows:
FIRST PLACE WINNER: 18 STEEM + 42 Voiceshares for 60 points
SECOND PLACE WINNER: 9 STEEM + 36 Voiceshares for 45 points
THIRD PLACE WINNER: 5 STEEM + 31 Voiceshares for 36 points
FOURTH PLACE WINNER: 3 STEEM + 26 Voiceshares for 29 points
COMMUNITY FAVORITE: 5 STEEM + 21 Voiceshares for 26 points
The Community Favorite each week will be determined by the amount of upvotes and comments responding to their entries, upvotes on their submission comment, and total community support on post.
Week #9 of the Steemit Music League Challenge starts today and will accept submissions until December 15th with winners being announced Saturday (December 16th).
The team of @chiefmappster, @danyelk, @derekmiller, and @nutela are pumped to see what is in store for this week.
Don't forget it helps the judges and the community for you to make a post about your entry, with how you created it, the meaning behind it, how the theme came into play.
It is just another way for us Steemians to get to know you and your message.
To join the Steemit Music Alliance Discord channel go here: https://discord.gg/na8W5Wr
If you want to hear the epic entries from Week #8 of the SML Challenge go here: https://steemit.com/smlchallenge/@chiefmappster/steemit-music-league-challenge-week-8-results
If you want to hear the amazing beats from Week #13 of the Beat Battle League go here: https://steemit.com/beatbattle/@chiefmappster/beat-battle-league-week-13-results
And for information about the live Week #14 of The Beat Battle League go here: https://steemit.com/beatbattle/@chiefmappster/beat-battle-league-week-14
Voiceshares are tokens are on BitShares. So make sure you have a BitShares Wallet to receive and send them for upvotes on your Steemit posts.
All you need to do to receive your Voiceshares is click here to create a Bitshares account here: https://bitshares.openledger.info/?r=akrid-1 and then you are good to go : )
Thank you as always for your time and attention. It means the world to me o weeeeee
Image Sources:
- OG Light & Love Tech Shaman @danyelk
- http://awakeningtimes.com/a-mother-civilization-predates-all-ancient-civilizations-on-earth/
Dating back to 1400 B.C.E., the "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal" (also known as "A Zaluzi to the Gods" or "Hurrian Cult Hymn", or simply "h.6"), is the oldest complete work of notated written music known to mankind. It was found inscribed on a clay tablet that was excavated from the Royal Palace in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria). Of about 36 Hurrian songs that were collectively discovered inscribed on the fragments of clay tablets, only "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal" was a substantially complete hymn.
The contents of the tablet included lyrics for a hymn dedicated to the Semitic orchard goddess Nikkal, wife of the moon god, and instructions for a vocalist accompanied by a lyre, sammûm (a nine-stringed instrument), or a type of harp. Unfortunately, the production credits were not included, so the composer is anonymous.
In the youtube video below, you can hear the audio of Michael Levy (playing the lyre) performing the oldest known musical melody.
For the Steemit Music League, I chose to sample this.
Here's my entry. I've also included elements of an ancient Mayan chant.
► Listen on DSound
Man every week @scuzzy you out do yourself and push the community to new levels.
The history and story behind your creation is what I was dreaming about for this week. You use an important piece of human history as inspiration and share the story and message with the community.
This beat is such an incredible tribute to the "Hurran Hymn to Nikkal."
That lyre is so beautiful and how you integrate the chants as well throughout is mind-blowing. And those vocals at 0:54 yessss love it.
This literally could change people's lives listening to it and learning about the inspiration behind it.
You might have to copy this into post it's too good of knowledge and art not to get more visibility ya know.
Much love and respect
Thank you! I was hesitating about making a post, but you forced my hand. I will have it up soon.
You're welcome buddy.
Sounds good o weee thanks again for sharing the knowledge
Aaaaaahhhh, finished :D !!! Here my entry..
https://steemit.com/smlchallenge/@d-vine/new-music-ancient-civilizations-mu-by-d-vine-d-vine-steemit-music-league-challenge-week-9-originalmusic
Ayyyyy let's goooooooooooooooooo appreciate you
✌️❤️✊️🎶
Lovin the themes more and more by the week! Kudossss on the select! Lets Go!
Ayyyy heck yeah glad to hear.
That GIF though hahaha :)
I was not aware there would be research involved in these contests!!!
Hahaha good to keep learning and progressing :)
However this theme applies to you, we would love to hear/see it :)
The rap battle was inspiring maybe @topkpop and I can do a rap battle of famous ancient women :D
O wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww epicccc :D
This post has received a 11.36 % upvote from @moneymatchgaming thanks to: @ukuleletutorials.
Ayyy heck yeah appreciate you. Runs smoothly it looks like :)
yea, I had the voting turned down on that batch as I was testing(back to full), but I'm sure we wont have a lot of bids coming in for awhile. cough cough
Ayyyyy you know how the Universe works :)
Peace & Salute! I sooooooooooooooo enjoyed this week's entry, i know i say this weekly... Thanks to the @ chiefmappster and the SML challenges for the continuous weekly challenges and inspiration!
Hope Y'all enjoy this musical journey with me! Kudos
https://steemit.com/smlchallenge/@djlethalskillz/new-music-ancient-civilizations-or-my-entry-for-week-9-steemit-music-league-producers-challenge
O heck yeahhhhhh and appreciate you being apart of it and this being an inspiration for you and the community.
I am blown away by the artwork and your entry absolutely incredible.
Well, this should be quite interesting to watch and listen too!
Ayyyy appreciate you. Super excited to see what the community creates