In-viz-ible's Acappella Singing Contest

In-Viz-Ible's Acappella AMATEUR Singing Contest Rules

Looking for 40 AMATEUR Entrants.

No previous Prize or Banner winners eligible - fresh blood only.

Do not enter if u are currently in another competition

You must be a member of SingSnap for more than 1 month but if you are a newcomer don't despair, I will run another right after this one finishes.

No professional or semi professionals please - no contestants who currently work or have worked in the music business, no contestant with a cd out in the professional field or no ''professional'' singer of any kind.

No singing to backing tracks and then editing after - please sing on a different back track to the song u audition with.

Only a verse and chorus for the initial audition process.

From the intial 40, the contestants will be pared down to 20.

From this stage, contenstants will be asked to sing the full song, again acappella. At this stage you may use the same backing track as the song u choose for the purpose of making sure you can get the whole song in. This comes down to trust and comparison to your previous audition, if there is considerable difference in your ability to hold the pitch or other factors, you will be asked to re-do on a different backing track.

From this point, we will lose 10. Another round of songs will ensue - a list of songs will be issued from which you may choose. From this 10 we will whittle it down to 5.

The last 5 can once again sing a song of their own choosing and to a backing track. I and a panel of judges will decide on the final three, that is first, runner-up and third place getter.

This is going to be short and sweet. The rules are strict because I want the prize to be worth winning. I want fresh blood because I get sick and tired of the same old brilliant and often professional singers doing the same old thing - that is winning everything within sight. This is truly a chance to see some different names and faces on the competition boards. I hope those that have missed out in previous competions will support this because, if it is successful, I will run more of them with a similiar theme......giving many more people the chance to be heard and acknowledged here on SS.

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NOTE: Auditons will finish as soon as we have 40 contestants.

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Mmmmm hadn't thought of that but how about this, u open a second window and pull up the lyrics of the song u want to sing from one of the lyrics websites. Just announce the song you are singing so we know what it is as obviously it will be different to the backing. I just wanted to create an audition atmosphere - kinda like Idol, where those initial stages are unaccompanied by music. If it is too hard, you can use the backing of the song u want to sing, turn the music down and go for it BUT remember, no cheating.

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Hi Tracy and donni

Okay, wow, am I learning as I go or what.....lesson one, u have to be a little bit flexible. You can both join and sing...inspite of both being in other competitions..... I really wanted to encourage some new faces onto the competition scene but I haven't had a huge response SO that works in your favour. Do not pull out of your other competitions, I'm not trying to be dogmatic and PLEASE, if you know any other interested parties who don't traditionally do competitons, invite them along.

And yes shygirl, you can sing Abba but acappella style only.

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This might be the biggest no-show in the history of SS at this rate lol. C'mon folks.....I really would love to hear from you.......

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yes, I guess that is the advantage of singing acappella - you can sing anything you like, even songs that are not here on SS. Be creative, I would like this to be an opportunity to not only hear some fresh voices but also some fresh songs (although SS's library is huge, I'm sure no one has sung them all anyway lol). Sing a song that will present to your voice to it's best advantage. We are not all Celine Dion's......some of us might be say, Bob Dylan, and that's fine, we want to hear ur style and judging will be based to the best of our panel's ability, on things such as pitch, timing, emotion etc etc.

Now, I need some help from you guys. I am not at all technically savvy but I need to put up the little 'you have been heard banners' as we start to get entries......can anybody tell me how to go about doing this.... Your help will be greatly appreciated.

I see LadyLexx has started the ball rolling and to her I say thank you. Will listen and leave acknowledgement once I have my banner situation sorted. Thanks heaps guys n' gals.

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Oh by the way, thanks to the members for their discussion on technical issues of recording 'acappella'. That is really helpful, not only to me but to anyone else who might be struggling a bit how to record themselves sans the music. You are doing a terrific service.

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mmm don't mind me I was just experiment with a banner which didn't work lol.

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Voil'a I checked the msg boards and thanks to some very smart fellow SS's now am a very non-experienced banner maker.......Gotta go and work on my trophy ones now lol.

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Just to make the process transparent I will let you know we are judging in 5 area's of your vocals.

These are pitch, emotion, interpretation/delivery, diction and timing (particularly in the stages where u are singing without music). Each of these sections will be scored out of 10 to give an overall scrore out of 50. This scoring is mostly for us, the judges, to give ourselves benchmarks for what we are hearing. I will not reveal the score here on the thread but if you are curious you can pm. Please remember judging is subjective and like any contest, is only a reflection of the judges opinion. Did u know, Tom Jones was dissed and told not to give up his day job when he started out and yet went on to experience a great and successful career. Most of us are on here for fun but I dont want to break anybody's self image if they feel their score wasn't what they thought it should be.

The plus to all this scoring is that it gives you a benchmark too and knowledge of area's that you might need to work a little extra on for your next contest or just for your own personal improvement and satisfaction.

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Hi Joysen, welcome. Please get ur entries in now, I wanted 40 but things are slow so this may change along the way.....Please let ur friends know (provided they do not already hold oodles of trophies and titles here on SS). Thanks heaps.

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Thank you to our contestants so far. I have listened to them all up to here and each of you has done a tremendous job - bravo. Remember, spread the word amongst your friends here on SS so we can up the numbers.

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