I'm speaking next week to a group of students in the School of Media at the University of Gloucestershire about Steemit for musicians. Ain't life weird*?
I've got two sessions with them.
Session 1
On Tuesday we'll go over the whole blockchain thing and how Steemit works, dSound/dTube/dLive etc and have look at examples of how people are putting it to use for themselves and working with others. Of course I'll talk about #openmic and how community also gets built through the Steemit Musicians Facebook Group and Discord. I'll also talk about the importance of face-to-face meetups and conferences.
I'm going to try to get them all signed up, but I'm aware of the delays with doing that through steemit.com - I might just have to splash some STEEM out on creating accounts myself.
Question 1
What else do you think I should cover with them - what do you think young musicians might need to know about Steemit and how it works.
Question 2
What great examples have you seen of musicians doing cool stuff here, beyond #openmic?
Session 2
Then the following week, I have a "doing" session with them. This might include briefing them in Session 1 to come back with something to talk about. We have an hour and a half to work together on something. It might be one big something or perhaps lots of smaller somethings.
Question 3
What something do you think we should work on to give the students a realistic experience of being on Steemit and how they could use it for their own work?
Thanks for any suggestions you can come up with. I will, of course, blog about the replies I get as well as the sessions when I run them (probably live!)
I'd recommend spending a good amount of time on Steem communities - from Minnow Support Project to Open Mic (as you mentioned) to OCD, Curie, etc, and explain how they can help.
If a new user has a basic mental roadmap:
-First few posts will be slow / maybe ignored
-Within 2-3 weeks, with good content, you get some curation votes and people start following you
before that, join steem chat / discord groups and participate in the music competitions to meet people
The hard part is to help people to get through that first month or two, when the payouts are non-existent and you don't know each other. Anything that helps people get past that slump, is crucial. Its not an easy question to answer but imo communities are a great way to approach it
thanks Matt, that's really helpful.
I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens with this group, who already know each other somewhat and should form some sort of community themselves. At least they'll see that it's not just them even if they're all not earning much.
But yeah I will stress with them that although the payouts may seem most important that the relationships are the most important thing.
If they can build a community together, around a tag, then they can help each other out. It's not just about a voting circle. It gives others something to latch onto. The #runningproject community is a good example of this. I really hope we get better community features soon to help with this.
Steemit offers so many options for musicians. They can give lessons or live gigs. I hope to see more people selling music and other stuff for Steem/SBD.
Try pointing out how it not makes them monetize what they're doing, but also to connect to random strangers that they can jam in. Meaning, more connectivity of the whole world of musicians, meaning more opportunity.
Also it provides them with new knowledge every day from hearing music from other parts of the world.
I've seen on here in the past couple of days that I've been here, that people share some of their stories, you can get a closeup view to how the musician's life works, because there are plenty of older and more experiences musicians here.
lovely, thank you.
+1 on "other parts of the world" - it's so easy for people in the UK to only identify with European/US musicians.
I know from my country (Croatia), musicians are locked in this tiny box, and average people aswell. This can change it.
Hi.
I'm an (almost) young musician (28) working with Steemit.
I find it quite nice and interesting here.
Talking about the integration of this soc. media into my musicianship, I still haven't found a way which would suit me best.
But it's fun. The comunity is very suportive... at times. :)
If you're interested, you may also play my recent music video which I've uploaded on dTube.
I was the producer, singer/songrwiter, screnwriter and actor. I drew the inspiration from the refugee crisis, afterwards I used the music video to help raising awarenes about the situation in Syria.
At this moment we're raising funds for Mr. Duggan, a free journalist from Damascus.
https://steemit.com/informationwar/@acedawnmusic/rp945e1v https://steemit.com/steemit/@deliberator/tom-duggan-syria-fund-the-camera-and-you
We also have a top5 charts here on Steemit if you didn't know...
https://steemit.com/dsound/@onetin84/dsound-top5-april-22th-2018-listen-to-great-music-tracks-on-steemit
I'd suggest them to be adventurous and inovative. :)
Yep I'm an almost young musician too (53) :)
Thanks, those are useful, I hadn't seen the dsound charts before.
Thanx for the reply. :)
Just yesterday I've also found out we have another interesting music opportunity here.
https://steemit.com/competition/@kph/free-sbd-music-competition-5
An interesting topic for beginning guitarists. A good incentive. My children are 12 and 14 years old, playing the guitars. Your criticism, as a professional, will be very useful to them. When everyone praises, it can be nice)), but it does not move forward. My children learn without a teacher. At school, in their class there are children who study at a music school. When they saw how my children play, their main question was "How do you play without music?". For me and my children this is very strange. Dozens of melodies my children remember ... why the notes ...... and my children, until the musical certificates do not know, I do not know, I could not teach. It seems to me that the music should be in the heart, and not on a piece of paper.
Good work! Thanks for the encouragement, and good luck to your kids, sounds like they're on the right track :)
Thank you! I have the worst musical ear, but I really love playing the guitar. I was able to give the children the initial basics and they quickly overtook me. Now I'm learning from them))
More people on Steemit is always good, more music people even better.
Steemit accounts are taking around 1.5 weeks at the mo, or so Im told from a recent new person I introduced.
yikes! Ten days is ridic. There's always a way.
I like sing a song @lloyddavis
One more thing, they could use it not only to share their work, but to practically eternalize their work by uploading it to blockchain.
a very good post @lloyddavis, that's really cool, I like the way you invite students to join steemit. Because they are smart people, with them joining in steemit is very much a benefit to everyone, because they can share useful knowledge for everyone, and steemit will be more successful for the future. Thank you and hope you will be more successful to work... :)
Hi
very very beautiful