Some great developments have come into existence around the Steemit Open Mic contest all designed to help foster the music community on Steemit.
Musicians Getting Paid On Steemit
For starters 22 of the participants in the Open Mic Songwriters Challenge sponsored by @meno received a bonus of about $140 USD each from @krystle. You can read more about that at I Just Gave Away A Bonus 3000 Usd To Our Top 22 Open Mic Songwriters Challenge Entrants --- by @krystle
Open Mic Songwriters Collaboration
@soundlegion and @qrittix produced a video collection of the artists you can hear at Sound Legion Presents Steemit Openmic Songwriters Challenge Season One Presentation Video Dual Unplugged Album --- by @soundlegion
If you haven't heard it go check it out right now.
Open Mic Radio Shows
Did you know that Steemit Open Mic has it's own radio show each Sunday hosted by @isaria on Discord?
You can hear last week's show at Steemit Musicians With Krystle, Isaria, And Shane Our Top 3 Winners 30 Sbd Prize Msp Waves Radio Show Audio Included --- by @isaria
Log in to the show here:
Each week they play the Top 5 Picks from the Open Mic judges and reward some SBD. If you're involved in Open Mic and especially if you're one of the top picks for Open Mic you should go check out the show and jump on for an interview.
Another show on Discord just started by @meno yesterday called Songwriter Shoptalk. If you missed it you can hear it at First Songwriter Shoptalk Show Tomorrow Jan 31St Featuring Soundlegion --- by @meno
@soundlegion is the guest of the first show and it's really good. You can listen to next week's show here:
Open Mic/Steemit Meetups
Another exciting development happening around the world is that Steemit meetup groups are getting together around Open Mic and playing music for the community. A combination of Steemit Meetup/musican jams are gathering together and playing music as a way to onboard people to the Steemit platform and seems to be working really well.
To me this is really exciting because it is in line with the mission statement of Steemit and why I started Open Mic to begin with. Helping musicians get on the Steemit platform, get involved in the community and crypto, and share their music is so inspiring and is what keeps me going.
These groups are springing up in the U.S., Africa, Venezuela, India, and countless other communities around the world. Amazing!
Open Mic Website/App
The idea for an Open Mic website/app is something I'm working towards bringing to fruition. Something like DTube or MultiTube, which are both open source, would work nicely.
If you are a developer and interested in modifying the code on either of those projects to repurpose it for Open Mic have a look at the code on GitHub first and if you are up for the task, contact me.
Here is the code for both:
How To Follow The @openmic Trail
The controversial shutdown of Streemian.com went down this week, suddenly ceasing their service. What this means for Open Mic is entries will experience a temporary reduction in upvotes and rewards.
For those who don't know, I manually go through all the entries and upvote the valid ones. This puts an enormous strain on my voting power which rarely rises above 30%.
@ausbitbank created the @openmic account to give people a way to support Open Mic without having to upvote all of my posts, saving their support for only posts related to Open Mic. By delegating Steem Power to the @openmic account and having it follow and upvote my upvotes on those who enter the contest with a valid entry, it gives a boost to those entering while insuring my voting power doesn't go to zero, which it would with the number of entries I upvote each week.
For people who wanted to support Open Mic but didn't have the Steem Power to delegate to the account, they could follow the votes of the @openmic account using Streemian so they could vote too, adding to the number of votes entries received.
Luckily we have another option that serves the same purpose.
If you would like to upvote Open Mic entries on Steemit automatically you can use SteemAuto.
Just sign up using SteemConnect, search for the openmic trail and add your name to the trail. It's that easy.
By default, your vote will be the same as openmics vote at 10% voting power but its selectable by the user when they choose to follow so you can give a smaller vote if you so choose. Every little bit helps support the musicians on Steemit open Mic.
Conclusion
Steemit offers a way for musicians express their creativity while earn rewards they can turn into cash. It has a profound impact on the lives of many people and it's not an exaggeration to say it's changing lives. It most certainly is and my commitment to growing this community is stronger than ever.
Thank you all for your music, inspiration, and contributions and remember to Vote For Pfunk For Witness And Keep Steemit Open Mic Growing Strong - We Need Your Help Now
A lot goes on behind the scenes to make all of these projects possible and a want to recognize the Steemit Open Mic Team for making it all possible. Thanks to you all.
May Steem be with you.
I will leave you with this video to enjoy.
I'm a father and struggling (money wise) musician and endeavour to make a living from my music to support my family, I've been writing songs for a while now and haven't had the best of luck regarding exposure and lucky breaks...but, after joining #Steemit and the #openmic contest 2 weeks ago, I refuse to give my music away for free any longer... The likes of YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook have profited from independent musicians for far too long now...I'm extremely close to removing those accounts and concentrating all of my efforts on #steemit.
I've noticed a huge reduction in votes and earnings for my entry in week 70 https://steemit.com/openmic/@mrbloom/steemit-open-mic-week-70-slowed-by-notes-original-song-darren-claxton
It's hopefully just a glitch regarding #steemian
So I just want to thank @luzcypher @soundlegion @pfunk @krystle @verbal-d @passion-ground @jessamynorchard
My Misson is simple- to buy our own place from my music... Total needed.... £150,000
I have enough great quality songs to make an album..
It may seem very ambitious but, I'm not interested in fame etc.
that's what I'm aiming for, a little house here in the Derbyshire countryside for me and my family to call our own.
Thanks for listening and supporting me these past few weeks.
Darren
I'm so happy you found #OpenMic on #Steemit and have so many wonderful songs to share with us here. Been loving your music, man.
Cheers my friend! you're a bloody good fella! Thanks for supporting this musical journey of mine!
I really want to push it forward!
Here's a new hashtag I made #teamuptosteemup
I would love to have people on with @isaria and @krystle during our show! Thanks for pointing people to it
Hey Shane bro... do you think texas internet would be compatible with other internets?
but on a serious note... it would be awesome to maybe bring the winner from the week before for a quick interview the next week on the show... that would be super ninja.. but... but... it has to be really short, because you guys always run out of time, too many good entries... way too many...
That's a great idea Meno.
Yeah, Time is the biggest challenge with the time slot we have. But on your other question, Texas internet isn't even compatible with itself, much less other internets.
It is growing like foam!! The amount of people joining each week is multiplying !!!
Great things like what @Soundlegion , @Meno , @Krystle, @Isaria, @Autbitbank , and off course @Lucypher are doing besides judging and hosting openmic are definitely being noticed. All their great work is definitely paying off and it is us the musicians who are getting the best off of it all ... not just the rewards but all the growing and the inspiration we get from all the amazing performances... and we get to know and make friends with incredible artists! It is all thanks to all the work done by these amazing people !!
I am eternally grateful for all of it!!
Open mic is bound to grow a lot bigger than it already is! And it is going to be great!!
Beautifully said @soykatonline I concur! I've met loads of talented likeminded musicians on here this past few weeks.
I look forward to meeting many more and posting more of my songs in the future!
kindest
Darren
Thanks ! i am so glad you like it here so far!
out of all the Kats in the world, you are my favorite one online!!! <3 always the best attitude missy
Haha!! Thanks @meno !! That does truly mean a lot to me ! You are awesome!
I'm so happy you are part of Open Mic.
thanks L! i am the happiest to be a part of it!! we are all making history!
The openmic made me finally decide to share my music. You really changed my life too that's for sure. I'm really exited to read about the openmic jams and the interviews.
You unite us through music. What a beautiful movement.
Thank you!
I'm so happy to hear you sharing music with the community. You sing like an angel from heaven.
Little darling Steem it UP !!!
I do not know how much to thank the administrator of the openmic program!!!!! If you have changed lives and mine, thank you very much for your commitment friend and all the juries.
You just thanked me more than you know with this comment and your music.
what openmic 70's over
Read the post and you'll know.
This family of dedicated musicians, organizers, witnesses, and judges never ceases to amaze me! You dun a really good thing here, brother Luczy! Much love, man!
So glad you're in on this project @passion-ground. Together we are changing lives man.
music is life and lets live music, lets live life, what you did in establishing a open mic community is the best thing that ever happened to every musicians here, and i say thank you once more.
your powers are from above.
#marshalllife
Thank you for bringing your cool music to the table.
☺ its nothing at all, it all i got to give that's what i gave, consider if their wasn't a platform like this where would i have dropped all those, but you and every supporters, sponsors of the openmic held it strong and left it up like kickstand.
it is lovely
I followed already to learn how it works. Singer-songwriter here from Spain and looking forward to share other musicians around. My partner recommended me to join Steemit a few days ago, and still a bit overwhelmed but starting to get the gist of it. I think I asked somewhere but is there a must read post for newbies to see how it all works? Thanks
Here are some things you'll find helpful on your journey through the Steem-O-Sphere.
The Welcome Page
The Frequently Asked Questions
and SteemitHelp.net
Thank you, bookmarking to have a look shortly. I barely joined some days ago.
An absolutely exploding music community! Its an huge honor to be apart of all of this and get to discover and enjoy, promote and share quality original music and the artists behind it. Luz you kick butt my friend, your openmic work has started some chain reactions in this community that are just incredible.
Thanks, @soundlegion. You're a big part of what makes it work now that it's scaling so big. I love your music and what you bring to the community here of Steemit.
Talking bout changing lives. Open mic came to me at the point of my life where I needed it the most.. M not a netizen but open mic is giving me reasons to stick with steemit stay online everyday and even gave me a reason to improve myself every week... Hugs and kisses to everyone who is made this a huge success.. Love y'll many!!!!
So glad to hear that.
Awesome, you guys are amazing, I don't know when you find the time to eat and sleep. Huge kudos to the OpenMic team 🙌
Sleep? What's that?
It's totally overrated 😂
Wow this is so cool! Excited about the website idea. And now I can upvote all of the Open Mic entries without having to go through them manually, very awesome. Resteeming.
It makes it easier for everyone to support Open Mic. Love your music BTW.
Thanks! I LOVE your contest :)
Hey I added my name to the openmic trail on Steemauto, but I'm not seeing upvotes from myself on people's entries... maybe it didn't take?
Ya mon! Open mic has certainly inspired some great initiatives & sprouted some really good talent!
Much love and respect to you and the major supporters of this fantastic community that is Open Mic!
Thanks @jaybird. Loved the entry from the @steembirds week 71.
https://steemit.com/openmic/@steembirds/steemit-open-mic-week-71-steemit-open-mic-week-283-original-song
Great post my friend but you have written my name a little wrong haha. @quittrex should be @qrittix haha. No hard feelings though haha i love the whole open mic concept and you're all doing an awesome job!
Ya i second luz. Thanks for taking the time to create that compilation!
It was icing on an already decadent cake so to speak !
Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it.
Thanks for doing such a good job on the compilation from the Songwriters challenge. Great job for what you had to work with. Making YouTube videos sound that good is no easy task.
Thanks @Luzcypher! Wasnt easy indeed! But i love these kind of challenges. :) glad to hear so many people like how it turned out. Will do it again when needed ofcourse! I really love the open mic concept and if i could sing i would have joined too haha. But i'm not going to torture all of you with my wonderfull voice lol
I love that the open mic community is growing with so many great things happening! Thanks for creating such an amazing community and for mentioning Steemit Musicians! Also, that's a great idea about trailing the open mic votes using steem auto, I'll check it out!
I appreciate everything you're doing to help musicians here too. The community is growing and branching out into lots of side projects. It's awesome to see and you're helping a lot with your radio show.
Wow thank you, you are truly amazing! This will change the life of many great musicians who would love to take more time for their heart project called music and now finally have the chance and for sure more motivation to do so! Next week I am in and I am excited about it and my heart already jump because of joy and excitement! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your great idea and of course taking. Action and giving your time into this great project! Yeah great!!!
Looking forward to hearing you play.
thanks to the organizers of this event, @luzcypher @ passion-ground @pfunk @jessamynorchard for having the brilliant idea of creating this contest, their desire and commitment to all these great, small, unusual, creative musicians and singers ... but in the end musicians of this great community. I'm sure that they should be thanking him, for this great work, keep it up so do not change, a big hug and as I would say Ceratti "Gracias Totales"...
Congratulations on winning 1st place last week.
amigo gracias de verdad que es todo un honor para mi, no tengo palabras para agradecerle, pero si le digo que gracias a este concurso me ha inspirado a ser un mejor musico y mejjor ser humano, Gracias!!
Awesome thanks for the updates!
I'm less active at discord and hence never knew about this
It's really cool. Discord is like the backstage of Steemit.
Thanks. Will check your channel.
I recently registered on discord, same user too, haven´t used it yet. I must do some "homework" ;-)
Like seriously I will do all I can to keep myself updated and stay constantly here with my fellow artist.... Heading to the hall of fame.
Im looking forward to listen your songs ♡
This is amazing. your drive to changing lives is just so inspiring.
i've just joined the discord group.
Thumbs-up
New to your blog may be because I have been less active on it lately. Anyway, being a music lover, I always take interest in music related blogs. I'm pleased to know someone is working on this side. I myself have been supporting the hidden musical talent through my Facebook page where they can record and post their songs with or without music. I intend to do a detailed post in this regard. By the way, it' s sad to know about Streamian. I will go through the post details later on. Can't users use dtube to participate? Just followed @krystle.
Where can I read the more details about Openmic contest?
You can read about Open Mic on my blog
thanks @luzcypher . You have supported my video
The open mic project will be a bomb..
@buckydurddle is also a lover of music
Is great to see this growing. I hoped all along that steemit would be good for musicians.
If anyone is in the area I'm playing at the White Horse in Arlesey tonight as part of our own open mic. It's going to be fun
Slow learner on the ins and outs of upvoting and how this place works in general. These posts are helping. The part where I post a song is simple enough.
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Really excited to hear about the Open Mic/Steemit meetups. That's a great idea, would love to get involved there. We have so many talented musicians where I live and they don't know about this possibility.
You could be the one to show them the possibilities of #openmic
it is great to comment on your post dear and i will request to visit my post and do little support to me please i will be thankful of you thanks
Thank you @luzcypher for hosting the steemit openmic; and to all the organizers. That must be a heckofa job watching all those movies--not to mention filtering out all the garbage cheaters, etc. ugh. That takes some mondo patience. So, really, we appreciate it.
Thanks man. It is a lot of work and we have a great team.
The @steembirds wrote a little song about it and it goes like this.
BAHHAHAHA!!!!! "Stayy up really late watching videos where youuuu SUCK!!" hahah. Tis true!! I probably would lose my mind (what's left to lose, anyway, that is ;)) On that "note," I am curious: I know ya'll go over how the judging is done; but, so are the judges just the folks who happen to have started the project and just stick with it, or is there a procedure to making judges and how does that work? Sorry if this is explained elsewhere--please direct me to appropriate page :) . And thanks again, to the real "heroes of steemit open mic": the Judges!!!
I started Open Mic back in October 2016 and @pfunk started funding it from week 2.
The rest of the judges were people who entered and I hand selected them to help as they were already getting very involved in the Open Mic community. I started adding judges in week 37 I believe and added a few more later on.
Great to see the openmic continuing to gain momentum and incentive for participation. Finally back in the studio this week and looking forward to participating!
All excellent news for the Steemit music community
I’m excited to be even a small part of this! I appreciate all of you who are forging the way. You guys all rock.
How did I miss the "Steemit Up" vid? I must have been sleepin, ' that's awesomeness!
El trabajo en equipo es la gasolina que nos permite a todos lograr resultados sobresalientes.. y usted amigo mio!! ha echo un esplendido trabajo... 👍