**Join Open Mic Night Week 4** and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit. Even if you don't play an instrument you can still show support. **Upvote your favorite performer and Reblog this post**. *If you have a friend that plays or sings, this could be a good way to introduce them to Steemit*. Thanks again to @pfunk for sponsoring (*with 100 Steem and tons of support*) the last two Open Mic contests. He even gave another 100 Steem on top of that to all who entered last week. Thanks @pfunk for helping us get a good start and get the word out about Open Mic. This week, I will follow his example and I'll support Open Mic 4 with 100 Steem from me personally. It's worth it just to see the wonderful performances you have all contributed and to help unite the music community on Steemit. >Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. >**Victor Hugo** # Open Mic Week 4 # 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 for everyone's support in helping Open Mic with upvotes. This gives more rewards to everyone who enters and helps the contest become 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 3 will be announced tomorrow**, Monday, October 24th, 2016 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 **openmic** contest:- - Need to promote community participation in spirit of **openmic** night. - So.. **openmic** submissions in comments, community voting and reblogging is encouraged. - However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for **openmic** 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 **openmic** submissions in their own blogposts. - Right at time of contest closing, the votes from all performances submissions will be counted and winners posted the following day. ## How To Enter Open Mic Night ## - In a well lit quiet room, use your cell phone to record your performance. See recording tips [here](https://youthradio.org/apps/diy-resource-how-to-record-high-quality-sound-with-your-phone/) and [here](https://www.lynda.com/articles/great-audio-with-your-phone) - 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: SAY THE WORDS OPEN MIC WEEK 4 AT THE INTRO OF YOUR VIDEO* - *IMPORTANT: The first words in the title of your post must include the words:* **Open Mic Week 4** before any other text in the title. >For example: ***Open Mic Week 4*** *- Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot* - You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say **Open Mic Week 4**. - *VERY IMPORTANT: THE FIRST TAG ON YOUR POST MUST BE: openmic* All one word. No spaces. - IMPORTANT: *POST A LINK OF YOUR POST TO THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST*. This will increase your exposure and votes while increasing the amount of prize money ansd will let us know you have entered Open Mic. ## Judging, and Contest Prize ## - Submit your performance in the comment / reply section by 12.00 PM UTC Time (Sunday the 30th October 2016). [Find your UTC time here](http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/). - You may submit as many performances as you like. - Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value. - Top 10 performances by amount of votes will be selected. - OpenMic 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 SBDs **generated by this post**. - 2nd and: 25% of SBDs each **generated by this post**. - 3rd place: 25% of SBDs each **generated by this post**. - All SBD's generated on your own post are your 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 OpenMic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the OpenMic Contest you may also use this image below. Just copy and paste this code as the first image on your blog post. `[![Optimized-Open Mic Week 4.jpg](https://s14.postimg.org/e6xlehctt/Optimized_Open_Mic_Week_4.jpg)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)` [![Optimized-Open Mic Week 4.jpg](https://s14.postimg.org/e6xlehctt/Optimized_Open_Mic_Week_4.jpg)](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 OpenMic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading. ## Open Mic Week 3 Winners ## ## [Open Mic Week 3 Winners - See Who Won Last Week And Link To Open Mic Week 4](https://steemit.com/openmic/@luzcypher/open-mic-week-3-winners-see-who-won-last-week-and-link-to-open-mic-week-4) ## ## 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](https://steemit.com/steemtrail/@music-trail/guidlines-for-having-your-post-curated-by-the-steemtrail-team-for-the-music-tag). - @steemradio is running some good [music curating programs you can find here](https://steemit.com/steemradio/@steemradio/steem-radio-all-our-running-music-curation-running-projects). Suggestion: **openmic** ***must be the first tag*** to enter open mic, but adding other music related tags (such as *music, music-trail, steemradio*) may help your post get more attention and perhaps even get curated by those music curators. ## 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! [![luzchypher hallowween.png](https://s21.postimg.org/q7yhr4sk7/luzchypher_hallowween.png)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)