Steemit Open Mic Week 63 - Record Your Performance And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher

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I want to thank all the talented people that have made the Open Mic contest such a joy to host. It is a pleasure listening to everyone's music and getting to know you guys. Steemit is SO cool like that.

Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 63 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 December
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 63 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 63 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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Check out this new promo video for Open Mic. Some of you are in it.

It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 63" 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

We Have Made Some Changes To The Rewards For Steemit Open

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Join Our Steemit Holiday Sing Along White Christmas --- by @buckydurddle

Steemit Musicians With Krystle And Isaria Episode 4 Show Notes And Audio 20 Sbd Prize --- by @isaria

Steemit Open Mic Is Growing And Expanding And A Call For A Dedicated Open Mic Website --- by @luzcypher

Open Mic Songwriters Challenge Week 3 Stolen Soul --- by @luzcypher

Behind The Scenes Look At The Steemit Open Mic Selection Process How We Pick The Top 3 Entries

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 62

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 60 will be announced **, Monday, December 4th, 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 are encouraged.

  • However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Steemit Open Mic night.

  • So.. community voting as the 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 62" 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 62 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 62" 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 62 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 62 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 62.

  • 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 8th DECEMBER 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.

We Have Made Some Changes To The Rewards For Steemit Open

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  • Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:
  • 1st place: 120 Steem
  • 2nd place: 60 Steem
  • 3rd place: 40 of Steem
  • 4th place: 40 of Steem
  • 5th place: 40 of Steem

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_week_63.png](https://s18.postimg.org/yzlv78wll/steemit_open_mic_week_63.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 December
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 63 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 63 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 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

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Traduction gracieuseté de @roxane

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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Very beautiful performance you guys.

this is very beautiful

wow!👏👏👏

haha aw, good song! That was cute. You got one kid "jumpin' all around" off the sofa again and again the whole time, and one "dancin' in the livin' room!". Wonder where the inspiration came from ;)

LOVE IT!!!!!!

Very nice playing, Lynn! I voted for you here because when I tried to vote from the busy.org link - it wouldn't accept my vote unless I signed-up and logged in.

Just wanted to share this with anyone making submissions via busy.org. Unless this was unique to me for some reason, it could make it much more difficult for such entries to build the number of votes they otherwise would.

Hi @passion-ground just replace the "busy.org" from the link with "steemit.com" like so:
https://steemit.com/openmic/@lynnm/steemit-open-semana-63-a-un-amigo-vals
Anything posted on busy.org is cross-posted to steemit.com (and all other 3rd party Steem blockchain-based sites as well). Cheers - Carl

Cool, Carl... Thank you, I didn't know it was that simple!

a bandura right? awesome...

Hello, here is my entry for the open mic contest. I hope you love it

https://steemit.com/openmic/@phait/steemit-open-mic-week-63-oceans-hillsong-cover

Thanks @luzcypher and @pfunk for this wonderful opportunity

Such a beautiful voice you have!

Thank you.... I appreciate your contribution

I love this song so much and you sing so well. I love this rendition!

Wow... I'm glad you love it. Thanks

THAT VOICE!

Thank you

i love hillsongs!nice voice there!

Your voice is amazing, well-done!

orginalmusic
Heres my entry, didn't know about the original music tag till now so never mind. Peace and love.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me....

https://steemit.com/openmic/@thesimpson/steemit-open-mic-week-63-the-tragedy-of-man-original

Love the harmonics! <3

Thank you for listening! Hope you find more of my music enjoyable!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@chaifm/steemit-open-mic-week-63-part-time-love-jacob-banks-cover

here we go again, week 63 :) have you ever thought how long can we keep this going? like week 150, 1500, 15000 ?

anyway, my entry:

Enjoy!

beautifully mellow :)