^{Cover art by - Hive account@aaronleang}

Welcome to the 216th Daily Edition of the Daily Qurator. Below you will find some awesome members of Hive account@qurator that worked hard to post some good quality content for all you awesome Steemians to enjoy!

The Hive account@qurator project was created to help give Steemians some extra exposure and awesome upvotes currently worth around $0.04 - $8.14!

Note: some of you have been curated twice since the start of the daily qurator and some have been curated only once. As the Daily Qurator is gaining fame with every passing day, many new steemians are asking/will ask to join us. So, expect to see posts from new users for now. When the opportunity arises, posts from older users will be curated once again

Today's the SPECIAL Music Edition of the DAILY Qurator. Sit back, relax and let's get started with some of your fellow Qurites and their music talents and other aspects of the music world. I've gathered five Qurites who will teach you a guitar lesson, share some great sounds and even give you a history lesson on 17th century music.

Mini-competition!

Just like last time with our Art Edition we encourage everyone to post some music related content in the comment section below (no spamming =P). Let's fill this Music Edition full of cool vibes and share some extra upvotes for all the musicians and music lovers out there!

We will pick one comment and upgrade their membership with one extra upvote tier for 30 days when this post reaches payout.

Winner of the Art Edition: Hive account@inspiredgideon1

Your Quality Curator ~( Hive account@goldendawne )~ Presents:

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Hive account@gamersnews	music

News Bulletin For My Valentine New Album Confirmed “Gravity”

It seems that Bullet For My Valentine has this album ready for some months. A few days ago I release this new Lyric Video from its promotional single Over It song belonging to Gravity After two years we have new material from the guys from Wales.
At the moment they are for a tour in USA by all the East coast and for June they will make a tour by Europe, what gives us to understand that the album is more than ready however in the busy schedule of Bullet For My Valentine there is a gap for the month of July which, we assume, used to promote his album in Europe and the United States.

This collaboration brought back thoughts of Five Finger Death Punch with a little Linkin Park. I believe Hive account@gamersnews has found an extraordinary album here. If you like alternative rock with a hint of industrial rock, then this album is for you!

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Hive account@pechichemena	music

Guitar Tutorial- Useful Lick- Descending Pentatonic Run

So, today I have you a particular lick , this is very inspired by one of my favorite guitarists of all time Eric Johnson , his melodic runs are always a joy for me to hear and his heavy use of the pentatonic scale to create non-conventional melodies are always a matter of study for me

It's time for a steemit guitar lesson with Hive account@pechichemena. You haven't had one yet? Well, head on over and see some great video tutorials. He breaks it down for you so it's easy to follow along.

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Hive account@drumoperator	dlive

Modular Across America! Ep 02: Baltimore, MD- Live Pop Up Synth Acid

Last night I found myself at the Metro Gallery, in a particularly rad part of town. Unfazed by my lack of the hundreds of feet of extension cords I'd need to shoot outside, I instead elected to shoot inside, facing a colorful mural and firmly in the way of anybody trying to get to the restroom. I wanted some random passerbys, and I was richly rewarded. You might also notice our entire merch setup vaguely in the background. Viva commerce.

If you close your eyes as this track is playing, you can almost imagine this being the background music for a nightclub and police detectives are attempting to talk to witnesses of a crime; or even trying to interview people. It has that movie or TV show ambiance to it.

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Hive account@ftlob	writing

Lou Patty- EP Review

Dutch band, Lou Patty releases their 3rd EP and after some research of their first two, it’s quite a departure. Melodies are replacing hip-hop style vocals, poetically-infused lyrics abound, compelling chord changes and stellar production value make this release border on heavy progressive/art rock rather than the former

Oh, this soundtrack takes me back- what a great EP to add to your collection! As Hive account@ftlob says in his description; this is a combination of a young Lenny Kravitz with a little Soundgarden mixed in for good measure.

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Hive account@musicapoetica	alldutch

Rhetoric And Rhetorical Figures In Music From The 17th Century- Part 2

Most of its history was European music especially vocal music. Musicians were traditionally under the influence of rhetorical principles during the production of texts. Poets were at the same time also singers who wrote or improvised melodies for their texts themselves and accompanied themselves on voices, lira's, lutes or harps during the presentation. In the Renaissance, arrangements and adaptations of vocal music were the largest part of recorded music for instruments

Hive account@musicapoetica gives us all a history lesson about how music evolved. Stop over to read about it in this post.

Figures are not melodies by themselves. This is because figurines arise when filling intervals through intermediate tones that do not belong to the harmony (or chord) in question (transitus). All figures can be explained by the harmony.

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NEWS

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Tier Updates Finalized

Tier updates are out and finalized. You can check out the post HERE.

She short version is that Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements have changed a bit. Please review them.

• A separate account has been created and 26 000 SP has been delegated to it. Hive account@qurator-tier-1-2 will be upvoting Tier 1 and Tier 2 members.

• A large amount of SP was undelegated from Hive account@qurator to accommodate for the new account, BUT the upvote weights have been adjust so they should balance out. Just have to see how the Voting Power holds up with the big change.

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Qurator is finally a witness!

For more details go check out our witness page and consider voting for us. We will always strive and do our best to benefit the community and our members. . =)

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Qurator 3.0

Qurator 3.0 is finally here! There has been quite a few changes. Go and check it out. It is quite a long read but well worth it if you are an avid Qurite. =)

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Steemit Challenges on Discord

We all know that there are some awesome Steemians that created great challenges with cool prizes here on steemit. Hive account@stresskiller took it upon himself to make a really neat Steemit challenges calendar that he synced and integrated into Qurator's Discord Channel. If you are a member of Qurator feel free to check out the Discord Channel and visit the steemit-challenges tab. There you will find an updated list of all the daily/weekly challenges. massive shout-out and thanks to Hive account@stresskiller!

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Competitions!

We host weekly Photo and Food competitions. Click on the images below to view the posts and cast your votes to the nominated Qurites. You can also comment #nominatein either of the posts to stand a chance to be featured in the competitions.

Photo Friday!	Tasty Tuesday!

Toss up Thursday	Biweekly
	Free for all post-promotional competition with a twist!

With all the flag wars and drama on Steemit, we decided to go the opposite route. Make love, not war! We don't take part in flag wars, instead we have upvote wars! We highly suggest checking out our latest competition and think of your ideal strategy to win that awesome Tier 5 prize. =)

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Qurator Tiers
	The latest Tiers update is out and updated. You can see the post by clicking here

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Hive account@qustodian support bot

For those who would like some extra upvotes from the Qurator project can send SBD and their link to Hive account@qustodian. The bot will upvote your post to the value of 2.65 times the amount of SBD you send it.

Send around 0.5SBD and your link to receive upvotes.

Any extra SBD will be refunded!

Upvotes limited to one every 24 hours.

Invest in Hive account@qustodian

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Delegations links can be found below. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!

Delegation links for Hive account@qustodian (NOT @QURATOR):

100	200	300	400	500	1000	5000

^{For any other amount feel free to contact us in Discord.}

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Qurator's Discord Channel that all Steemians can join - https://discord.gg/pJtWp57

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Steemauto Curation Trail

RIP Streemian and hello Steemauto! The new curation trail is active and running! If you would like to support your fellow Qurites or just earn some extra curation feel free to join our curation trail that is active on Steemauto.

We suggest not following the trail with 100%, steemauto has 2 ways of following a trail, static or scaled. We suggest using SCALED instead of static since static votes can add up quickly and drain VP very fast. We suggest using scaled and then maybe around 25%.

Steemauto can show us who is currently on the trail and at what percentage. Looking forward to see more Qurites joining the trail in the near future! We also reward the team players and there might be a nice surprize for a lucky trailer. =P

Steemauto guide and registration info

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TIER	Requirements	Perks
	Basic 4 STEEM registration fee. Upvote for life from Qurator Project	Basic upvote for life from Qurator.
	Delegate 100SP or Upvote Hive account@qurator's posts 4+ times a week	Tier 1 upvotes
	Delegate 200SP or Upvote Hive account@qurator's posts 7+ times a week	Tier 2 upvotes
	Delegate 300SP	Tier 3 upvotes
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Elite Tiers

TIER	Requirements	Perks
	Delegate 1000SP+ to Hive account@qurator	Copper weight - T5 x 2
	Delegate 1500SP+ to Hive account@qurator	Silver weight - T5 x 3
	Delegate 2000SP+ to Hive account@qurator	Gold weight - T5 x 4
	Delegate 2500SP+ to Hive account@qurator	Platinum weight - T5 x 5
	Delegate 5000SP+ to Hive account@qurator	Diamond weight - T5 x 12 + Rotational Resteems

Delegation links:

100	200	300	400	500	1000	1500	2000	2500	5000

After you click the link you will have to check the value, click next and then enter your steemit NAME and Private Active Key to delegate. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!

The new weights for Hive account@qurator-tier-1-2 are likely to change since we are not 100% sure how many Tier 1 and Tier 2 members post. We need to see some new averages to find a new balance.

Update: Seems like the VP is holding steady for Hive account@qurator-tier-1-2. It is weekend though and we know people post less over the weekend. Will keep it at 2 and 4 percent for now.

Members	1290	+2
Steem Power	4207
Delegated	75 207
Voting Power	83.59%
Upvote Weight T0(Hive account@qurator-tier-0)	3.5%	$0.04
Upvote Weight T1(Hive account@qurator-tier-1-2)	2%	$0.07
Upvote Weight T2 (Hive account@qurator-tier-1-2)	4%	$0.14
Upvote Weight T3	2.7%	$0.37
Upvote Weight T4	4%	$0.51
Upvote Weight T5	5.5%	$0.73
Copper (T5 x 2)	11%	$1.39
Silver (T5 x 3)	16.5%	$2.05
Gold (T5 x 4)	22%	$2.71
Platinum (T5 x 5)	27.5%	$3.37
Diamond (T5 x 12)	66%	$8.14
Witness rank	94	-1

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