Join Open Mic Night Week 30 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 30
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 29 will be announced tomorrow, Monday, April 24th, 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 30 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 30 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 30 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 30 before any other text in the title.
For example: Open Mic Week 30 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot
You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say OPEN MIC WEEK 30.
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 30th 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!
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Thanks so much you guys. Much appreciated.
I am wishing all good luck . Can't wait to hear all entries
Me too.
It's hard to believe we've been at this for 30weeks! Special thanks to @luzcypher and @pfunk as well as, to all the participants for holding this together!
We much like it, my precious.
My original song! Thanks.
https://steemit.com/openmic/@tfeldman/open-mic-week-30-memory-boulevard-original
Very cool
Thanks!
I'm voting now because I'm gonna be afk for most of the weekend, gl everybody!
Oh good, I finally managed to catch one of these out of the box, it's been awhile :) Resteeming!
Cool and thank you. Are you going to jump in?
I wish I was a musician. Or that my brother would stop dragging his feet and get his arse on here! I've been refraining from posting his videos lately because he keeps assuring me that he plans to open an account soon and I don't want to run him out of stored material, lol!
Point your phone at him, make him say Open Mic 30, record him playing and post it on your account. Then show him what you earned. That has gotten musicians to start an account before and it will work with your brother too.
You would think so! But I've made over twenty bucks on some of the posts I've put up of him playing, he's seen it, he loves the idea, but he's still dragging his feet. And he has a ready made audience here, I've become quite friendly with a number of people in the music community who are waiting for his arrival and really enjoy his stuff :) To be fair, he and his wife had their first baby in December so he's been preoccupied. He just started playing gigs out at bars again, so now I think it should only be a matter of time.
Oh yea, I remember now and have upvoted some of those posts myself. Silly brother, but I know how it feels sometimes. I used to play so many shows and got burnt out and needed a break too.
I also remember some of the those! Your bro has a wicked voice colour!
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goin to try again! (resteemed)
Cool.
Here's my contribution this week https://steemit.com/openmic/@lk666/open-mic-week-30-morktra-performing-living-dead-universe
Thank you for playing
Here's one from me,
https://steemit.com/openmic/@raddog/open-mic-week-30-a-short-song
Thanks for playing at Open Mic.
TY!
My original song submission "Hold on Me" - https://steemit.com/openmic/@jaybird/openmic-week-30-original-song-hold-on-me-jaybird
Very cool.
Hey guys , here's my entry for Week 30.
https://steemit.com/openmic/@betelzeus/open-mic-week-30-tears-in-the-rain
Got it, thanks
As I recall... We can enter more than once each week right? If i have a few more entries for week 30...
Yes, you can.
oh boy oh boy haha
Alright! here's another entry - Some Original Piano Music for ya'll - https://steemit.com/original/@jaybird/openmic-week-30-piano-improvisation-2-original-music-jaybird
Got it. Cool, you're a man of many talents.
I vaguely recall that we can also post some videos that don't say "Openmic" in the contest thread. Obviously they won't be entered in the comp to win...Just more so for the openmic community to see/here em since ppl have been asking. It would be one of my Rockyard videos. Would you prefer I kept them separated from openmic? I'm easy eitherway ~
Please keep them separate from openmic. I don't know who told you that. I started openmic tag for the open mic contest only. People keep ignoring that and at one point I got tired of writing so many comments explaining it to those that use the tag.
originalmusic is a tag you can use for original music
Cool, I appreciate you clarifying. My bad, I didn't realize that you'v had this convo before :(
ad nauseum
lol. I'll make it up to you ~
Fashionably late as always lol https://steemit.com/openmic/@verbal-d/open-mic-night-wk-30-entry-god-gave-me-a-solid-vision-original-song