Have you ever wanted to start to practice on the organ but found yourself sidetracked after a few days? Apparently your inner motivation wasn't enough.
I know how you feel. I also was stuck many times. What helped me was to find some external motivation as well.
In order for you to advance your organ playing skills and help you motivate to practice, my wife Ausra - @laputis and I invite you to join in a contest to submit your organ music and win some Steem.
Are you an experienced organist? You can participate easily. Are you a beginner? No problem. This contest is open to every organ music loving Steemian.
Rules
- It's sort of open mic contest for organ music - no limitation to length, level of difficulty, genre etc.
- It can be any organ piece, any hymn, any improvisation or any organ exercise.
- It has to be performed by you without editing.
- Be sure to clearly state Secrets of Organ Playing Contest, the contest week number, your Steem name, and the random contest entry word of the week. This week's word is "Malta".
- Upload your entry to YouTube.
- Make a post about your entry on Steem.
- Performance on pipe and electronic organs are valid.
- Use #secretsoforganplaying as your first tag.
- Upvote and Resteem this post on Steem.
- Comment this post on Steem with link to your entry so people can see and listen to it.
- The contest is open until Monday, May 20, 2019 12:00 PM UTC.
Rewards
Every participating entry will receive our upvotes. Additionally, 3 winners will be rewarded some STEEM in the following manner:
1st Place: 10 STEEM
2nd Place: 6 STEEM
3rd Place: 4 STEEM
Judging
@laputis and I will serve as judges. We will pick winners based on what sounded the most interesting and best performed to us.
Our goal here is to support the community while motivating you to practice, inspiring to create some amazing music and adding more smiles to everyone's day.
Questions, comments, ideas? Please let us know your feedback about this contest.
Support our fellow contestants - upvote, resteem and comment their entry to let them know specifically what did you appreciate about their music.
Also stay tuned for the post about winners from last week!
If you would like to participate but don't have Steem account, let me know your desired username by contacting me on my blog https://www.organduo.lt/contact.html and I will create an account for you very quickly.
We hope to see even more entries next week!
And remember, when you practice, miracles happen!
Hello, here is my entry for this week: https://steemit.com/secretsoforganplaying/@partitura/gottfried-heinrich-stoelzel-triosonate-c-moll
Thanks for your entry!
Hello @organduo and @laputis. Here is my entry for this week:
https://steemit.com/secretsoforganplaying/@contrabourdon/jesu-joy-of-man-s-desiring-johann-sebastian-bach
Thanks for your entry!
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Thats a great idea even though im not sure how many organists you will find. :)
Classical musicians are rare as is. Organists even rarer. I know of maybe 3 violinists on the platform.
I know of four classical organists on this platform, @organdou, @laputis (though she doesn't present herself as such on this platform), @ontrabourdon, @drugelis (though not very active) and myself. O, that's five. That's probably why I am not a very good musician: I can't count... :-)
Reallly? I know of 2-3 creators here id call violinists that i know of. There are a few hobby ones but i wouldnt count those. :)
Ive been here more then a year and its funny that the most represented instrument in the orchestra (well depending which one ofc. hehe) is so scarce here.
There’s also @andyradtrad and @jhat08, though they haven’t participated in the contest lately. I’ve invited another friend, so hopefully he will join.
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I was 't aware of those two. Thanks, I'm going to check them.
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I found an eigth: @savagirl4
Ah yes, she plays well. Hope to see her back.
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I sent her a special message in Total Organist Basecamp channel saying that we miss her. I do hope she'll come back.
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Yes... They all either my friends or students.
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And we all share this (for most people) strange love: for the wind in pipes and the reverberating sound it creates in any space.
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You are doing a good deed by helping people who want to improve their skills and win a prize. Thank you for your great work.
Thanks for this fresh edition @organduo
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Here is my entry for this week: https://steemit.com/secretsoforganplaying/@savagirl4/prelude-fugue-and-chaconne-buxtehude
Thanks for your entry! I checked your wallet and it seems you don't have any Steem Power to interact on the blockchain. But you have some Steem. Try to power up that Steem.
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Did I do it right?
Bravo! Yes it is correct! Now you can post, comment, upvote and resteem to your heart's content...
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You have receive an upvote. Thanks for playing moonSTEEM