Steemit Music League Challenge S2:R9 Announcement | DSound Community Initiative

O weeeeeee here comes a new round to help showcase their talent, hard work, and passions to the community from all over the globe.

With eleven (11) top-notch entries the Latin Music theme last round was a vibrant one that is for sure. So much talent and positivity coming together as a community. Feel very blessed to be able to listen to such inspiring music. Results here

We are excited to witness the newest creations shared in this Round #9 of Season Two of the #smlchallenge

Courtesy of Light & Love OG Tech Shaman @danyelk

The Steemit Music League Challenge is an open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers. Basically if you have a passion for music you can submit an entry every round.

It was created to provide the vocalists, rappers, musicians, & producers of Steemit who are chasing their dreams an avenue to be highlighted and earn additional recognition, feedback, and rewards.

As another way to help support Steemians chasing their dreams with music, the Steemit Music League partnered up with DSound.

DSound's support of the Steemit Music League will allow for greater recognition and rewards the Steemians who take part in the nine (9) SML's contests and challenges.

Thanks again to @prc for his support of community initiatives and helping the Steemit Music League reach its potential. If you trust and support @prc like I do make sure to vote for him as a witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Without further adieu here are the details of the Steemit Music League Challenge S2:R9:

This round's theme is:

Music of Africa

Some of the most ancient and spiritual music is from the continent of Africa and still has major influence and inspiration in music worldwide.

It is filled with much diversity and characterized by highly rhythms music usually with a core rhythm and the inclusion of a variety of instruments.

Some instruments prevalent in African music are the djembes, drums, xylophones, and tone-producing instruments such as the mbira (as well as others seen in image below).

Anything from Afro funk, the hypnotic rhythms and "gritty guitars" of African Desert Blues, to Afro pop, to anything that includes those highly rhythmic influenced music. So many styles of African Music to be inspired by.

Rappers, musicians, and vocalists can create that uptempo African-influenced tracks from the genres mentioned above or however this theme resonates with you. Rappers there is that African rap genre that has become so popular across the continent

Producers can use those commonly found instruments in African music as inspiration and/or include those highly rhythmic flair.

However this Music of Africa theme resonates with you let's hear what creativity and inspiration you use to make this music that will having you upbeat and dancing.

RULES

Upload your entry using DSound by going here: https://dsound.audio/#/upload

You log-in using your Steemit name. When you upload to DSound you content is posted to Steemit so your following can enjoy your music and reward you for doing so.

We don't want to exclude anyone so if DSound doesn't work for you please feel free to submit using the most convenient method for yourself.

If you have any questions on how to upload to DSound you can ask in the DSound Discord or SMA Discord channel or you can visit this awesome post by @prc here: https://steemit.com/music/@prc/introducing-dsound-a-decentralized-sound-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs

Just make sure it's an original entry based off of the theme of the round and use 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 May 3rd at 11:59 PM EST / 4:59 AM UTC to submit your entries with winners will be announced Friday night, May 4th.

The entries are judged off of the following:

• Sound Quality: does this sound crispy, in speakers and headphones, is there cracking or recording errors? How loud can we play it before you notice quality issues?

• Technicality: what are the skills you displayed in making this entry? The technical aspects of the your craft.

• Creativity & relevance to theme: how unique your entry is. How well it revolves around the theme? O we have never heard that sound or lyrics before? Extra points for artwork and video work related to the entry.

The prize pool is as follows:

FIRST PLACE WINNER: 8 STEEM + 50 Voiceshares for 58 points

SECOND PLACE WINNER: 4 STEEM + 42 Voiceshares for 46 points

THIRD PLACE WINNER: 2 STEEM + 34 Voiceshares for 36 points

FOURTH PLACE WINNER: 1 STEEM + 28 Voiceshares for 29 points

COMMUNITY FAVORITE: 20 Voiceshares for 20 points

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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.

Round #9 of Season Two of the Steemit Music League Challenge starts today and will accept submissions until Thursday, May 3rd night with winners being announced Friday night (May 4th).

The team of @chiefmappster, @beatseb, and @derekmiller are pumped to see what is in store for this round.

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.

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The Steemit Music League is a community with the goal of providing the most feedback, recognition, and rewards all while bringing Steemians together.

Currently the following are the nine (9) contests in the Steemit Music League which is part of the Steemit Music Alliance (SMA) [click on contest/challenge name to go to most recent related information]:

SMA	Contest Initiatives
	Steemit Music League Challenge (#smlchallenge) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers.
	Beat Battle League (#beatbattle) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): A challenge for music producers to produce an entry based off a theme or sampled material for that round.
	SMA Feedback Contest (#smafeedback) (Hosted by @inthenow): A feedback-based contest for music. Provide music for feedback and/or provide feedback and get rewarded for doing so.
	Chord Challenge (#chordchallenge) (Hosted by @antminer): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression.
	Kill The Pad Challenge (#killthepad) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit): A weekly topic text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist.
	Educator Showdown (Hosted by @novili): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music.
	Poetry Slam (#poetryslam) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit & @scuzzy): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format.
	Pitch Perfect (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by @alejandra23): A weekly challenge for original music creators.
	Bands About Bands (#BandsAboutBands) (Hosted by @ftlob): A weekly music review contest covering bands and musicians on Steemit.

The winner of the Steemit Music League is determined by the amount of points earned through League contests and challenges.

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Another great way to connect and interact with the community is through the SMA (Steem Music Alliance) Discord channel.

You can connect and collaborate with other community members, play music live, get beats and tracks demoed, and listen to entries with others live via the SMA bot.

Live radio shows happening now with the Needle on Your Record Show by @d-vine, @onemedia and @seveaux every Wednesday at CET 8-10 PM (2PM-4PM EST). Send your tracks to @d-vine to get heard on the SMA radio.

To join the Discord Channel go here: https://discord.gg/na8W5Wr

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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://wallet.bitshares.org/#/dashboard and then you are good to go : )

Thank you as always for your time and attention. It means the world to me :)

Image Sources:

• OG Light & Love Tech Shaman @danyelk
• OG @scuzzy
• http://blog.pandora.com/us/curation-monthly-september-2017/
• http://www.thunderboltkids.co.za/Grade4/03-energy-and-change/chapter3.html

Namaste

@chiefmappster