Open Mic Week 14 - Record Your Performance On Your Phone, Enter And Win Steem

in #openmic • 8 years ago

Join Open Mic Night Week 14 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

Prizes

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Open Mic Week 14

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 13 will be announced tomorrow, Monday, January 2nd, 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 before any other text in the title.

For example: Open Mic Week 14 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say OPEN MIC WEEK 14.

  • VERY IMPORTANT: THE FIRST TAG ON YOUR POST MUST BE openmic All one word. No spaces.

  • REMINDER: BE AWARE THAT STEEMIT HAS A BUG AT THE MOMENT IF YOU ADD MORE THAN 4 TAGS TO YOUR POST. YOUR POST MAY NOT SHOW FOR ALL THE TAGS. IF YOU ADD ONLY 4 TAGS IT WILL SHOW IN ALL FOUR TAGS

  • 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 the 8th JANUARY 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 PRIZE MONEY DONATED TO OPEN MIC WILL BE SPLIT WITH THE SAME PERCENTAGES LISTED ABOVE

300 Steem Prize

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.

[![open mic 14.png](https://s28.postimg.org/nlv2873gt/open_mic_14.png)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)

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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.

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!

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     8 years ago  

    This is my entry for OpenMic #14. I wanted to do this much sooner, but have a busy work schedule, SO I PLAYED HOOKIE TODAY!

    Thank you to @luzcypher and @pfunk for sponsoring this event. It is much appreciated!

    ☆☆☆☆☆😎

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     8 years ago (edited) 

    Happy New Year! (Original Song)

    I said open mic 13 because I was gonna upload it in the previous contest but had technical difficulties and missed the deadline ^_^

    Entry Post Here

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     8 years ago  

    Happy New Year to all!!! Im so happy to finally take part in this... Here is my entry for week 14 of open mic. Much love https://steemit.com/openmic/@soundlegion/open-mic-week-14-soundlegion-original-song-in-front-of-or-behind-me

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     8 years ago (edited) 

    Welcome. Very nice song and performance. Thanks for playing

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     8 years ago  

    Hey Ya'll, here is my openmic week 14 Original Music submission titled "Time to Make You Stay" - https://steemit.com/openmic/@jaybird/openmic-week-14-jaybird-original-song-time-to-make-you-stay-piano-vox

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       8 years ago  

      Thanks for playing us a song.

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       8 years ago  

      Wow, that's cool. How I can record my sound? must to use guitar or other musical instrument?

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         8 years ago  

        You can just use your phone to record. You can play any instrument or even just sing to music or the radio

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           8 years ago  

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             8 years ago  

            here is my entry for openmic 14 hope everyone had an awesome and safe new years!

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               8 years ago  

              What's up guys! I know I've missed the past couple open mic events, but I'm back. This is one of my favorite songs, I hope you guys enjoy it!
              https://steemit.com/openmic/@rileyechard/open-mic-week-14-cover-of-relient-k-who-i-am-hates-who-i-ve-been

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                 8 years ago  

                Hey everyone, just finished my entry, so here it is. Best of luck to us all! https://steemit.com/openmic/@verbal-d/open-mic-night-wk-14-entry-barz-original-song

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