Music Today Issue #9 | A SMA Community Initiative

In this 9th issue of Music Today, we discover and highlight five (5) amazing music posts from all over the Steemit community.

Music Today is a SMA Community Initiative aimed at making sure the time and effort Steemians passionate about music are recognized, rewarded, and given the feedback they deserve.

What is the Steem Music Alliance? (SMA)

The Steem Music Alliance (SMA) is a community-based network platform that connects musical creatives, as well as, music lovers. We offer the opportunity for people to engage, collaborate, and grow.

We are a dynamic, collaborative group of over 500+ members with the goal to help each other in the pursuit of reaching our potential and dreams.

With eight (8) contest and challenges supported by the SMA, we aim to provide the maximum recognition, feedback, and rewards to the amazing creators of music on this platform. Music Today is another one of those initiatives to help achieve this goal.

Our curators scoured the #music, #sma , and other music-related tags to find some incredible music-related content to showcase and highlight to the community.

All of these posts below were voted on by the @smacommunity trail which is comprised of souls who care about music and music-related content here on Steemit.

Help music-related Steemit posts get the recognition and rewards feedback they deserve by joining the @smacommunity curation trail here: https://steemauto.com/dash.php?trail=smacommunity&i=1

Without further adieu here are the five (5) posts highlighted in this issue of Music Today

For @smacommunity written by: @ivan.atman

 

Se Trata De Ti | by: @ilazramusic

This is such an exquisite composition, @ilazramusic showing his extensive orchestrating abilities, he throws so many harmonies and brings them all together to sound immaculate., from his baritone to his falsetto everything sits so well. It is truly amazing how much quality effort you can find today on #openmic, all this talent in my opinion is giving a great breakthrough for the platform to get a true credibility concerning the music scene in a couple of years.

Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/openmic/@ilazramusic/steemit-open-mic-week-79-se-trata-de-ti-original-song

 

Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol (Cover)| by: @edprivat

Such a amazing job here by @edprivat, covering the "Sweet Sixteen" by Billy Idol in a gospel style, making it sound like a whole another song. All of his vocals are spot on and create the "room full of musicians" atmosphere even though I'm pretty sure it is all him. I completely enjoyed all the aspects of this performance, from the guitar and the choir, to the vocal dynamics in certain places and even that pinch of the phaser effect in the last part. Truly admirable @edprivat well done...

Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/dsound/@edprivat/20180405t174616152z-sweet-sixteen-billy-idol-cover-by-ed-privat

 

Tuscan Sunset | by: @thetroublenotes

This lively trio comes from Berlin, Germany and not only are they keen on busking in spectacular places, but they deliver a certain energy and really got some oomph to say the least. Cajon sound got captured amazingly and it is great it did to do the justice for the tight grooves the percussionist is doing in this performance. Followed by the exquisite and exciting riffs that the guitarist keeps giving throughout the performance, and amazing violinist that really builds up the flow with his spot on harmonies, I really enjoyed this performance to the fullest, as a musician myself I respect busking and consider it to be the best and most authentic form of a performance.

Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/music/@thetroublenotes/be4qcaut

 

I Believe | by: @schamangerbert

What find this is, this improvisation has such a nice flow to it, simply starting with the curious drum machine Digital Tabla from the Riyaz Studio the groove is really in its place, really carries itself throughout the performance. On top of that with some really cool chants and amazing soprano saxophone improv bits, this is an amazing session. I'd jam with this dudes anytime...

Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/originalmusic/@schamangerbert/ritual-music-4-originalmusic-by-schamangerbert

 

The Sun & the Moon | by: @marysemciver

After 3 years of a globetrotting adventure Maryse McIver wrote this amazing piece when she returned to her hometown of Melbourne. One can notice while reading and listening to the song that lot of emotion has been put in it, I love her eclectic vocal dynamics, and her choices of chords to transmit the whole concept. Chords reminded me on Drive, a song I really like from the band Incubus. This being her first performance she really promises a lot, so go on and give her some love in the link below, she deserves it...

Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/openmic/@marysemciver/steemit-open-mic-week-79-first-ever-steemit-post-the-sun-and-the-moon-maryse-mciver

 

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Wow we hope you enjoyed these absolutely amazing music posts from these incredible Steemians.

We hope these posts inspire you to appreciate the incredible music-related content being created here on Steemit everyday.

Leave some feedback on these posts and show some love to these amazing Steemians apart of the music community here on Steemit.

If you would like to help this SMA Community iniative you can join the @smacommunity curation trail here: https://steemauto.com/dash.php?trail=smacommunity&i=1 and/or delegate to the @smacommunity account like so:

https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html

Currently the following are the eight (8) contests in the Steemit Music League which is part of the Steemit Music Alliance (SMA) [click on contest/challenge name to go to most recent related information]:

SMA	Contest Initiatives
	Steemit Music League Challenge (#smlchallenge) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers.
	Beat Battle League (#beatbattle) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): A challenge for music producers to produce an entry based off a theme or sampled material for that round.
	SMA Feedback Contest (#smafeedback) (Hosted by @inthenow): A feedback-based contest for music. Provide music for feedback and/or provide feedback and get rewarded for doing so.
	Chord Challenge (#chordchallenge) (Hosted by @antminer): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression.
	Kill The Pad Challenge (#killthepad) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit): A weekly topical text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist.
	Educator Showdown (#educatorshowdown) (Hosted by @novili): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music.
	Poetry Slam (#poetryslam) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit & @scuzzy): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format.
	Pitch Perfect (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by @alejandra23): A weekly challenge for original music creators.

Thank you from the Steem Music Alliance Team:

Curators:

@chiefmappster
@ivan.atman
@macchiata

Moderators

@edje
@scuzzy
@simgirl
@jamesgetsit
@djlethalskillz

Founders

@chiefmappster
@seveaux
@macchiata

Come join the SMA Community