Open Mic Week 26 - Record Your Performance On Your Phone, Enter And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher
Join Open Mic Night Week 26 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.
Prizes
- 200 Steem from @pfunk
- 100 Steem from @luzcypher
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Open Mic Week 26
Thanks for supporting, upvoting, Resteeming and entering Open Mic, a community of music lovers for music lovers and musicians.
2 Votes = Win Win
You can help support 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 25 will be announced tomorrow, Monday, March 27th, 2017 so be sure to follow @luzcypher for updates and thanks for everyone that entered, upvoted and resteemed Open Mic.
Open Mic Process
Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the Open Mic contest:-
Need to promote community participation in spirit of Open Mic night.
So.. Open Mic submissions in comments, community voting and reblogging is encouraged.
However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Open Mic night.
- So.. community voting as 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 Open Mic submissions in their own blog posts.
IT IS CRUCIAL WHEN YOU RECORD YOUR VIDEO THAT YOU SAY OPEN MIC WEEK 26 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.
You can still post an older video if you want and enter so you can earn on your post, but prize money will not be paid out for those posts. If you want to earn the prize, make a new video and say OPEN MIC Week 26 at the start of it. If you just want to enter and don't care about the prize money, then you still can.
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 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 OPEN MIC WEEK 26 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: OPEN MIC WEEK 26 before any other text in the title.
For example: Open Mic Week 26 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot
You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say OPEN MIC WEEK 26.
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 (Sunday 2nd APRIL 2017). Find your UTC time here.
You may submit as many performances as you like.
Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value.
- 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 OPEN MIC WILL BE SPLIT WITH THE SAME PERCENTAGES LISTED ABOVE
300 Steem Prize
- All SBD's generated on your own post are yours to keep of course.
- You may also post your entry and comments on https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic
Images
You can use any images you want on your blog when you enter Open Mic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the 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://steemit.com/@luzcypher)
Disclaimer
Make sure performances are your performance.
The song does not have to be original, only your performance of the song.
The Open Mic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading.
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's a few new places to find great music.
@music-trail team is part of the SteemTrail project, curating good music you can find here.
There is a blockchain based record company on Steemit you can read more about here: Announcement - Thirsty Entertainment Website is now live! --- by @thirsty
There's many places to share your music online and you can read about it on this post titled 7 Websites To Publish Your Music And Earn --- by @rossenpavlov
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, you may want to add orginalmusic as your 2nd tag.
Thank you all for the participation!
Thank you for the positive support from the Steemit community and a 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. https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic
We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of the Steemit music community!
https://steemit.com/openmic/@soundlegion/open-mic-week-26-lana-del-rey-acoustic-cover-hello-hello here is my latest entry lana del rey cover hello hello
So good to see you back at Open Mic. Thanks for singing and playing for us.
Hey @luzycypher I am going to try to participate this week! I meant to do it last week but totally lost track of time.
ok
https://steemit.com/openmic/@verbal-d/open-mic-night-wk-26-entry-soulmates-part-3-tribute-to-my-wife-original-song
Here's my entry, dedicated to my wife, happy half year anniversary for the open mic contest!
Nice !!! I played a tango for you :p
Thank you brother, me and my wife can dance to it! I'm a terrible dancer, but I'm musical in everything else haha
May be I play it to jazzy for dance :p (but my sweet girlfriend can dance on everything, she is awesome !)
That's beautiful to hear my friend, I will listen to your song soon! And yes my wife also too can dance to anything. I am terrible at dancing, but I can slow dance, that's half the battle! Haha
That's good to slow dance, what is matter is the feeling ! I say that, but I'm terrible too :p Well, we make the music... and the women dance !
Definitely, I completely agree, we let the women do the dancing! There is definitely nothing wrong with that haha
Here is my BLUES of the Week! The tale of when blues had a baby!
https://steemit.com/openmic/@tfeldman/open-mic-week-26-blues-had-a-baby
Thanks again @tfeldman
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My entry for this week. Good job mahn! @luzcypher
https://steemit.com/openmic/@trillex/open-mic-week-26-don-t-tell-me-you-love-me-cover-by-trillex
Git it! Thank you again for singing.
Quick question(s) , any genre accepted? And , i suppose open mic would suggest singing , but I'll ask anyways : Are instrumentals allowed? Also , are there any alternatives to posting the videos besides youtube? And .. sorry last one ... I think I'm a bit confused about the voting ... Do we vote by just upvote-ing for the individual's post on their page for the songs we want to win? or ...
Any genre is welcome. You can enter ANY song you like. A cover song from someone else, or an original song by you. You can even play an instrument. Or you can sing. Or you can do both sing and play an instrument. You can even perform with a friend or a group of people. But just make sure you say Open Mic Wk 26, for this week's so it is validated and confirmed as a real entry in the beginning intro of your video
I don't know of an alternate to posting videos other than Youtube, do you have issues with using Youtube? And you can go to the individual's post and Upvote it, or leave a comment on any of the Current Wk Open Mic posts by @luzcypher and drop a comment saying "I loved (insert Steemit Contestant Name Here e.g. @BOB His performance was amazing!"
Original music gets an extra bonus of Steem provided by Open Mic Contest Sponsor @pfunk, but your Cover Song from another artist has an equal amount of chance to win top 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the contest.
We look forward to your entry. Remember to have fun and invite others to come and show case their talents. I hope you find this message helpful.
Thanks for helping with the responses @verbal-d. I've been busy packing for my move to Mexico. Appreciate you helping out by answering questions.
You're most welcome, I hope your move is going well and as stress free as possible
Hey verbal-d thanks for the explanation , I appreciate that :)
You are most welcome, I'm glad to have helped
Any genre is good. Singing or playing an instrument. I don't know if other video sites would work or not but it needs to be posted on a video site like youtube and a link added to your steemit post to have a video play on steemit. You can vote on their posts or on the links they leave in the comments of this post or both.
Here's who played last week and here are votes from last week on the contest page but people also voted on their posts.
Cool . Thanks luzcypher. I will try to post something here eventually , i honestly can't believe 4 days have gone by already hah!
I wanna join, do i have to compose my own song? or is it okay if i sing one of those song in youtube?
Please do enter! You can enter any song you like. A cover song from someone else, or an original song by you. You can even play an instrument. Or you can sing. Or you can do both sing and play an instrument. You can even perform with a friend or a group of people. But just make sure you say Open Mic Wk 26, for this week's so it is validated and confirmed as a real entry in the beginning intro of your video
Original music gets an extra bonus of Steem provided by Open Mic Contest Sponsor @pfunk, but your Cover Song from another artist has an equal amount of chance to win top 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the contest.
We look forward to your entry. Remember to have fun and invite others to come and show case their talents :) I hope you find this message helpful.
wow, cool! Thank you so much.
You are most welcome, I am glad to have been helpful when I could be.
how long the song would be? any time? 😂 I'm planning to cover a song and cut it so probobly like 2 mins only. That's okay right?
It can be any length of time really, there is no standard for a set time. That's completely okay.
You can sing karaoke style. Just remember to say Open Mic Week 26 at the beginning of your video. @pfunk is giving bonuses for original songs but it doesn't have to be original.
Hi ! I want to participate this week again ! https://steemit.com/openmic/@soushi888/openmic-week-26-oblivion-astor-piazzolla
Here's my entry this week
https://steemit.com/openmic/@lk666/open-mic-week-26-morktra-performing-darkness-no-more