Steemit Open Mic Week 50 - Record Your Performance On Your Phone, Enter And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher

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Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 50 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

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Steemit Open Mic Rules

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 15th of September
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 50 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 50 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.

Entries must follow these rules to earn prizes. For a more in-depth understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

Prizes

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

Victor Hugo

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It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 50" at the beginning of your recorded video and as the first words of your post title. Posts without that at the beginning of the title are hard to find in the feed and we may miss your post. Posts without those words spoken in the beginning of your live, recorded video do not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song by you it is very important you put the word "original" in the title and "originalmusic" as the second tag of your post####

Here is an example of a correctly titled post.

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These requirements make it easier for judges and curators to find your posts and reward you for original songs. Ignoring these requirements only hurt your chances of earning rewards.

Steemit Open Mic News

Would You Like To See Steemit Open Mic Represented At Steemfest 2 --- by @luzcypher

Announcement Steemit Open Mic Official Judges Panel --- by @luzcypher

You can also post your Steemit Open Mic link to Steemit Open Mic Post Promotion channel by join us at the Steemit Local Musicians Society on Discord and get more upvotes for your entry. Here is the invite code

Steemit Open Mic Week 50

Thanks for supporting, upvoting, Resteeming and entering Steemit Open Mic, a community of music lovers for music lovers and musicians.

2 Votes = Win Win

You can help support Steemit 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 49 will be announced **, Monday, September 11th, 2017 so be sure to follow @luzcypher for updates and thanks for everyone that entered, upvoted and resteemed Steemit Open Mic.

Steemit Open Mic Process

Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the Steemit Open Mic contest:-

  • Need to promote community participation in the spirit of Steemit Open Mic night.

  • So.. Steemit 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 Steemit 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 Steemit Open Mic submissions in their own blog posts.
  • IT IS CRUCIAL WHEN YOU RECORD YOUR VIDEO THAT YOU SAY "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 50" 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.

  • If you want a chance to earn the prize, make a new video and say STEEMIT OPEN MIC Week 50 at the start of it.

  • 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 Steemit 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 "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 50" 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: STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 50 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 50 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 50.

  • 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 (Friday 15th SEPTEMBER 2017). Find your UTC time here.
  • You may only submit 1 (one) entry per week.

  • Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value.

  • Steemit 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 STEEMIT 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 Steemit Open Mic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the Steemit Open Mic Contest you may also use this image below.

Just copy and paste this code as the first image on your blog post.

[![steemit_open_mic_50.png](https://s26.postimg.org/svtoy9ogp/steemit_open_mic_50.png)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)

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How To Get More Views To Your Entry

You can help get more views to your Steemit Open Mic entry and help grow the contest by Tweeting your blog post. You can also:

  1. Steemit Group 1
  2. Steemit Group 2

Disclaimer

  • Make sure performances are your performance.

  • The song does not have to be original, only your performance of the song.

  • The Steemit Open Mic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading.

Remember to follow these rules so we can find and reward your post.

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 15th of September
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 50 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 50 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.
  • If your song is an original song then add the word "Original" somewhere in your title

For a fuller understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

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 are 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, add orginalmusic as your 2nd tag. This will help curators know it is an original song which currently pays a Steem bonus to you.

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 and you can post your entry there too. https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic

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Translation courtesy of @lizanomadsoul

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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I really feel that this contest is one of the best projects/contests going on for Steemit.
I really care about the success and development of this cutting edge community so I make it a point to put in an entry each week. I intend to do something creative, different and fun each time.

My Entry For This Week!

∞§∞Painted Warrior Medicine∞§∞

https://steemit.com/openmic/@quinneaker/steemit-open-mic-week-50-original-entry-infinity-infinity-painted-warrior-medicine-infinity-infinity

Very cool. Thank you for being part of Open Mc.

Happy to support such a great project of which helps the entire Steemit community progress!

Hey it's Ray Ray. This is my entry for week 50. I've been gone for a few weeks finishing this song and practicing for a live performance. Anyway here is an original titled Desperado. This is one of my favorites. I hope you all enjoy!
https://steemit.com/openmic/@ray.luv.music/steemit-open-mic-week-50-ray-ray-aka-ray-luv-music-desperado-original-song-produced-by-mantra

Welcome back

Good to be back!

Passionate Vocals! Nailed it! Keep them songs coming.
Cheers,
Bucky

I'll keep em comin'

Hi guys

Here is my contribution to Wk 50 Open Mic and I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks once again to @luzcypher and his team for keeping on keeping on!!!

Fantastic @steelygeoff. Love the haunting sound of the pedal steel.
Cheers,
Bucky

Cheers Bucky.

Beautiful playing Geoff!

Thanks there Oliver. Looking forward to your spot... got my tissues ready! 😥

great music sir @steelygeoff so relaxing ..its like im isitting in a beach sipping my favorite juice while listening to your music :)

Very nice sounds. Makes me want a tropical drink now.

Me too nice thought. Time to order something. Cheers

I was just thinking today how much I miss hearing songs with steel guitar.
Very nice! Thank you!

Thank you Tom. Appreciate you listening. 👍

oh man this one really shone a light into my heart. What a beautiful melody. Thank you so much - this is a wonderful thing to listen to while I feed my baby. Thing Two likes it as well!

Thank you, @steelygeoff,

I enjoyed your performance. I also found this very intriguing, because I recognize the tune to this song as that of an old hymn, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus." I was able to find a steel guitar rendition of it here:

Furthermore, I found that the tune is attributed to one Charles C. Converse.

If you should have any references to the original folk-song source, I'd appreciate it as I have (so far) been unable to find a match in that area of searching...

Kindest regards!,

- @creatr

😄😇😄

@creatr

Your technique is really good. Always a pleasure hearing you play.

Great playing as usual @oliverwaterman . Love to hear your contributions each week. Keep raising that bar.
Cheers,
Bucky

Love this performance and the dramatic scene fits the music perfectly.

thanks. 50 is a good number congrats to everybody behind the scene making this happen. Let's just reach 100 together now.

Very cool track @papa-pepper!

I keep seeing this YUNK on Steemit. What is it exactly?

According to the URBAN DICTIONARY

The yunk term used on the social media steemit (A social media that based in Steem cryptocurrency) for a community of people who support themselves and the same cause trough the #yunk by posting relevant and irrelevant new and original content of quality. I used as a verb that's yunking is awesome in the strangest way, unique.
It's started at Steemit chat around 3 hours of random conversation on 7/12/2017. Even though there are different definitions on the word/term, the main purpose started just for fun, by a group of users followed by the "motheryunk" so created the first post tagged #yunk.

What to know about them? This people might try to give important feed back to your post and become part of your followers and create a connection with you and usually support your steemit grow or be there for you upvoting or resteeming if the content is at the Yunker standard, quality contents will reach higher upvotes than in a normal #, or that's the intention, because people in the #yunk community are more than just bloggers, the yunkers get engaged in the posts.

Some people say it was inspired on a user, however this person didn't motivate it until it escape from his hands and accepted the term, now some memes and even tunes are available.
There is also a guide on how to Yunk and Yunkosexuality , used to express attraction for the yunker. The trend became a High standard for steemers. When the fall of the steem value, yunk finds it ways to make the community a wonderful place.

"I am here for the Yunks and stayed for the content"
"Hey I'am reyunking this comment".
"yunkvoting this awesome content".
"So, Who can Yunk? only cool and awesome people do".
"Hey Yunk that up."
"Yunk4yunk "
"yunk yunk yunk"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yunk

LOL, that is funny that the word is gaining so much traction.

I suppose I'm a Yunker myself then. That's Yunked up. Now that I know I guess I'll get Yunky with it.

ahahahahaha yup you got the Yunk!

Hilarious!! but quite amazing!

Oh dude, one of my favourite songs of the 90's dance genre... I couldn't watch the video though... staring at your chin made me uncomfortable haha so I just listened and looked at space pictures.

Now I HAVE to listen to it!

I'm back singing in my car this week.
As I drove through the streets near where I work,
I decided to use it as a backdrop for an old song from a famous Broadway musical.
This is from the show "My Fair lady."
The song is called, "On The Street Where You live."
Thank you for stopping by and listening.

https://steemit.com/openmic/@tombalistreri/steemit-open-mic-week-50-on-the-street-where-you-live-cover-performed-by-tombalistreri

Nice

Love it! @tombalistreri I am so happy to see a variety of musical style represented in here.
Cheers,
Bucky

Nice little Sunday drive singing. Love it!

Thank you!
Glad you liked it!

Hola! Aquí mi presentación de esta semana. Con mucho cariño. https://steemit.com/openmic/@digitalopus/steemit-openmic-week-50-contigo-en-la-distancia

Amazing performance! Thank you.

Nice it sound like someone getting ready to fight in a medival war. I'm already earing cellos, timpanis and brass. You should keep this idea and build over it !

Thanks @michaelstellaire I know what you mean. A full orchestration would work well for this :) when @ezzy turns this story into a movie I will score it for him :)
Thanks for listening
Bucky

Made me want to dance. Thanks.

Hi, this is my first participation at the openmic. Here a bit of psychedelics echos for you!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@michaelstellaire/steemit-openmic-week-50-original-michael-stellaire-s-psychedelic-delay-steemit-improvisation-1

Very cool sounds my friend. Thanks for playing for us.

It's very exiting. An openmic like this it's like oxygene on the embers of my inspiration. Thanks for hosting it.

I am a little late to the party this week but I made it! My folks are in town from Alaska so I haven't been online much this week. Original a cappella number for you today, accompanying myself with live looped vocals. Cheers - Carl

https://steemit.com/openmic/@carlgnash/steemit-open-mic-week-50-becoming-original-a-cappella-song

Here's my latest song played on a guitar I bought with my Steem!

You got my vote my friend! Wish you all the best! 2 more votes coming your way!

Cheers. Your support is appreciated

Congratulations on earning a new guitar with Steem.

Beautiful song @chaifm .
Keep those great songs coming.
Cheers,
Bucky

Thank you for playing for us.

You are awesome! And beautiful (which is obviously completely irrelevant in this context).

👏👏 👏👏 Not sure what the issue is with DTube and my PC but it palyed in fits and starts. What I heard sounded great and the lyrics read very well! Nice one. 👍

Thank you

Very cool. Thanks

Thank you.

Oh hell.... I love this so much! Up-voting this post for sure. This song is very beautifully played. The lyrics are enchanting. This is a style of music that I love listening to. Original, but still feel like it has a 90's influence something like.... the pixies... the shins... and so many other influences but still being so original. This is truely a new favorite of mine. I shall listen to it over and over again!!!

Thanks again @sallyswitchblade i replied to your comment elsewhere but forgot to mention my influences. There are indeed 90s and early 2000's tones and melodies present. I've always been a huge Paul Dempsey (Something for Kate) fan but also heavily influenced by 90's grunge band like Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. I also listened tip tons of Violent Femmes in my youth and they will always have a special place in my heart.

Thank you for playing for us. Sounds good.

Cheers @luzcypher, always a pleasure 😄

Hi @trevorpetrie, depression is indeed a very dark part of the human brain. Your intro reminds me of eagle eye cherry. I like your composition and lyrics, very soothing and the guitar is smooth and consistent.

Hi @soonmusic thanks for watching! It sure made for a number of destructive years, thankfully I've learned to forgive my past and gained strength i would never have previously imagined. Thanks for the kind words!

Its a pleasure watching your performance

Hi!!! Thanks again!!! Here is my original song for this week... https://steemit.com/openmic/@fael/steemit-openmic-week-50-original-song-by-fael-dos-rios

Love it! Beautiful original piece @fael !
Cheers,
Bucky

Thank you.

Nice one you guys.


Wow, here we are at week 50 already! My latest submission is personal one. I feel it coincides with a mindset we should all seek within ourselves to wash our minds and souls of disappointment and realigns what's important in our lives and our focus while we are here with this little time we have in this world.

https://steemit.com/openmic/@tribedownsouth/steemit-open-mic-week-50-everyway-circa-survive

Cape Bretton Rocks!

Yesser it does. Wishin i was there now.

Hello everyone this is my first entry to steemit openmic..Hope you like it
https://steemit.com/openmic/@sandaraclark/steemit-open-mic-week-50-we-ve-only-just-begun-cover

Welcome and thanks for joining in.

Lovely performance @sandaraclark
Excellent 1st performance. Looking forward to many more :)

Lyrically, it seems that I don’t know whether I’m “comin’ or goin’” as I perform another one of my originals for Open Mic week #50.

https://steemit.com/original/@passion-ground/steemit-open-mic-week-50-i-m-comin-home-original

Sounds great, man. Thanks

Great song @passion-ground . I love the passion you draw on for your music. Very special.
Cheers,
Bucky

Thank you kindly, Bucky ... Your support and encouragement are fondly appreciated.

It's not going to count for this week but we found an old video we did for week 48. Hope you guys enjoy ;) https://steemit.com/dtube/@dewallenband/srxpi41g

https://steemit.com/openmic/@addiesworld/steemit-open-mic-week-50-original-be-my-sugar
Here is my original song for the week! It's one of my favorites I've ever written. Love this contest so much!

Can't wait to see the entries! Sharing with other musician friends and thinking about what I will share...I'll be participating soon. Noob here getting acquainted.

Upvoted!

Go for it int. It's brilliant! 👍😊

Cool. Welcome to Steemit Open Mic. If you like live music you came to the right place.

Hello fellow Steemians - Well its Openmic Week 50 and I couldn't miss this one so without further adieu here is my submission for Steemit Openmic Week 50...
https://steemit.com/openmic/@wethepatsies/steemit-openmic-week-50-ain-t-nothin-wrong-here-original-song

Love this open mic week contest. It brings me so much joy to be able to listen to all this amazing talent!

I love listening to all this great music too and your songs are really heartfelt.

I'm trying to go to SteemFest 2 in Lisbon, Spain this year to promote the contest. If you like that idea then check out this post and help make it happen.

Thanks for being part of this Open Mic thing and sharing your music with us.

Steem on!

WOw! Great sax playing! I want to hear more this stuff!!!!
Following and cant wait for more.
Buck

Thank you @buckydurddle! I will try to enter openmic each week, so more to come! Do you know if the openmic rules allow me to have other musicians backing me up?

I am not sure about that, but @luzcypher would be the person to ask. He organizes these openmics.

Welcome and thank you

Happy Week #50 everyone!! :) This song is an original called "Bombs For Peace".

https://steemit.com/dtube/@lyndsaybowes/osm0jlpk

Happy 50th!!!

Congrats to you for creating such a successful contest!! :) :) :) Kick ASS!!

I love the textures you create in your music. Very nicely done.
Cheers,
Bucky

Thank you for playing for us.

Hi guys. I would like to formally participate. This is the kinda music I do and I am very new to this. Will record a proper one if there are people who like my genre of music.

https://steemit.com/openmic/@zhusatriani/my-music-impromptu-performance

This sounds wonderful and would love to hear more from you. However, to participate and qualify please follow the rules. Thank you.

Hi Guys, here is my contribution to week 50 of this crazy open mic contest. I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks alot to @luzcypher for hosting this and keepin it going on !
Jan


https://steemit.com/openmic/@jedigeiss/steemit-openmic-week-50-iam-yours-cover

I'm glad you're enjoying open mic too. Thanks for playing for us.

Dear All, with great pleasure this is my first attempt at openmic and your comments are greatly appreciated. Only if you like what I have to present, you can upvote me. I humbly give you 'When you say nothing at all' by Ronan Keating.

https://steemit.com/openmic/@soonmusic/openmic-steemit-openmic-challenge-week-50

Welcome to Steemit Open Mic and thank you for playing for us.

Pleasure is all mine sir

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