Welcome to the first official Open Mic Songwriters Challenge where one lucky winner gets a new guitar!
Open Mic Songwriters Challenge
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Do you like to write songs?
Can you write a song a week for 8 weeks?
We will provide 8 different weekly themes
Enter the Open Mic Songwriters Challenge
Make some great music and you may win a new guitar!
This is the first week in this 8-week challenge.
The theme for week 1 is:
Broken Mirror
To enter week one you need to write a song that is about or involves a broken mirror.
It can be a metaphor or a lyric in the song as long as the song somehow relates to a broken mirror
To qualify as an entry to this week's challenge all the rules listed below must be followed and it must be a new song written for specifically for this challenge.
The first tag of your post must be: openmic
The second tag of your post music be: openmicsongwriters
Recommended tags:
openmic openmicsongwriters music contest challenge
openmic openmicsongwriters music contest challenge
Each of the following 8-weeks, the challenge will begin on Wednesday and end on Monday of each week
The deadline to submit your entrythis week is Monday. 27th of November 2017. Please have the song posted by then so we have time to review them all.
The contest will run for 8-weeks and each week we will provide a theme. You will write a new song about or related to that theme.
This challenge will require you to write up to 8 new songs, one per week. This is the challenge.
We will provide the theme each week and make it a bit uncommon so songwriters will not be able to pull previously written songs from their repertoire.
They will actually have to write a song based on the theme we provide and have about a week to write each song.
So, are you up for the challenge? A shot to win that guitar?
Keep reading to discover how it works.
Open Mic Songwriters Challenge Rules
Following these rules is very important so your posts can get curated, upvoted, and seen by the Open Mic community.
The contest will run for 8 weeks. Each week will have a new theme. Songwriters will write one new song each week using the theme we provide.
Songwriters can join at any time, but the sooner you join the more points you'll accumulate, making your chances to win a little better.
Submit Original Music Written For This Challenge Only and related to each week's theme that we'll provide.
You can enter Steemit Open Mic and the Open Mic Songwriters Challenge with the same entry. Just say it is for both at the start of your video. Ad a link to your post to both contests.
No covers, no parodies, or no cover versions will be considered as a valid entry.
You can sing in any language but the lyrics must be posted on your post in the language it is sung in plus in English using Google Translate.
OpenMic Songwriters Challenge Week # (current week number) must be the start of the title of the post, this is key so that judges can easily find the entries.
You must say the words “OpenMic Songwriters Challenge Week #” at the beginning of your video so we know you are really playing live for us for this contest (Adding an edit to a prerecorded video just to add the words is not good enough. It must be said out loud by the person performing the song just prior to performing it. Recording the words and editing it to the beginning of a video still does not prove it was really you.)
Live performances only. No studio recorded tracks.
openmic & openmicsongwriters should be your first and second tag respectively. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
Add a link to your entry post to the comments of this post
Lyrics must be included in your post If the song is sung in another language, the lyrics must be posted in both English and the language it is sung in.
Upvote the Open Mic Songwriters Challenge weekly post posted by
All songs must be about the week’s theme, entries not related to the theme will not be considered as valid.
What About The Prizes?
All rules must be followed to qualify for the prize.
Winner of the contest takes home a brand new Grace Harbor Acoustic/Electric Guitar with a hard case. You can have a look and a listen to this beautiful guitar in this video.
Grace Harbor Guitars GHD-100CE
Body: Dreadnought Cutaway
Top: Lam Spruce 3.1mm
Back & Sides: African Sapele (Lam)
Neck: Nato Hardwood
Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 300R (12")
Rosette: Herringbone
Inlay: Mother of Pearl
Scale Length: 646 mm (25.4")
Truss Rod: 428mm TX Bi-directional
Neck Joint: 14F
Can I Use The Same Video To Enter Open Mic And The Open Mic Songwriters Challenge?
Yes! You can use the same video performance to enter both contests for that week. Just say that's what you're doing at the beginning of the video.
Say something like: "This song is for Steemit Open Mic Week # and the OpenMic Songwriters Challenge Week #" (fill in the current week numbers).
Then use the same video but make two different posts on your blog, one for each contest.
Title the Open Mic contest post "Steemit Open Mic Week #".
Title the songwriters challenge post "Open Mic Songwriters Challenge Week #"
Then add the link to your two posts to the comments of each contest. The SteemitOpen Mic post to that contest's comments and the Open Mic Songwriters Challenge to that contest's comments.
Follow these instructions and your post will be considered valid for both contests!
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Get ready to enter and win that guitar!
If you have any questions please add them to the comments below and we'll respond as soon as possible.
