I seen a beat battle going on by and supporting the Beat Battle with their time and resources are:
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but I think we should come up with a better concept than to leave the voting to the judges. Having judges reminds me of centralization, where a group has the power to decide things instead of the people having the power to decide. I'm proposing we leave the voting up to the steemit music community to decide on who wins out of these beat battles.
It's very easy, the producer that has the most honest upvotes on their instrumental should be crown the winner. As I'm writing this right now, I can see the vision in my head. I just need to further plan out how it will work and how things should be setup or can run with the concept & build around it by setting up all the rules and guidelines & also the prizes. I don't believe we should let a small amount of judges to decide who's instrumental beat is better, I think the steemit music community should be the judges. Also, I propose that we do not use any samples because that involves Music Plagiarism. I wrote about it here -
We should let all producers be free to create how ever they wish to create without the limitations of having to use a sample. Sampling is fun, I love to sample but like I wrote, profiting from upvotes on an uncleared sample is Music Plagiarism. There should only be genre battles, such as 1 Week could be a Hip Hop Battle and the 2nd week could be an R&B battle, 3rd week can be a pop battle and so on until we come back around to Hip Hop Battle. This type of battling will bring out the best of the best Music Producers on steemit because it involves creating outside of their normal genre.
Any musician or steemit user who wants to be a judge, simply just has to listen to that producer's instrumental before giving them an upvote and the producer that has the most upvotes should be the winner. We can even go as far as setting up brackets for the participating producers so users have the chance to listen to 2 options before giving the producer an upvote. Round one will be 16 music producers on steemit that wants to participate and that round can be on a certain day, like on a Monday. After the community have voted on who's instrumental is the best, the winning music producer in round 1 goes off into round 2. Round 2 can be done on Wednesday because we need to skip a day so the winning music producers can create their beats for round 2 on Tuesday. We need to give them time because we are in the unknown about each music producer's daily life schedule.
After the week of battling is over, the producer who advanced to win the beat battle is the champion and I propose that the champion of all beat battles, automatically gets a place in the next beat battle to defend their title as the hottest music producer on steemit. I know that this Beat Battle is new but I just think that if we want this music producer fun to continue and grow, we need to build the foundation of it now and since we are doing it on the blockchain, decentralized voting is the only way to go.