Vote today! Three Contest Entries, Only One Will Win!
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Monica in Contest Voting
On Friday at midnight, October’s deadline for our first YouPerform contest drew to a close. We were really excited to see that three, brave performers have submitted their musical performances for our first contest. Performing the Musicnotes Editions arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King, which was October’s free sheet music download of the month, each performer has a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Musicnotes.com!
Contest Rules Update: We have received feedback from you that we needed to ensure our contest performance rules were more explicit. We have now expressly defined a music performance as:
A performance is defined as: the musician playing or singing the song without the aid of an additional soundtrack or music recording using a method called “syncing” or similar means.
Thank you for your feedback and we are happy to address your concerns on this end. We really appreciate your comments!
How to Rate Contest Performances
There are two ways to rate a performer’s video for our contest. The first way would be to login to YouTube! and visit Musicnotes.com’s YouTube! channel. All three contest entries have been approved for viewing in our October contest group and are now open to the public for rating.
The second way to rate the contest entries, is to watch each video below and rate their performance. We hope that you will participate in our first video contest by rating these contest entries and are encouraged to submit your own entry for November.




robin
Nov 04, 2008
Performer A sounds a little choppy and plays the whole song at the same speed. Performer B is too long and repeats itself over and over again. Performer C shows a little more style
Geman
Nov 09, 2008
I saw the hands of the Performer A and looks like he was pressing the correct keys.
However, Performer C looks like the music was played in a computer and he mute the piano speaker pretending he was playing with his own hand.
Performance B played too slow.
Janet
Nov 09, 2008
Artist A looks as though he is enjoying his performance.
Artist B is playing too slow, and needs improvment, was he reading the music as he was playing?
Artist C. Was the sound out of time? he looks as though he is not in control or is the computer playing for him.
Johnson
Nov 09, 2008
Artist A does a great job truly playing this piece of work.
I just can’t get into this particular piece done on the guitar – sorry, but it is a noble attempt.
Artist C is “finger-synching” – he is definitely not playing this!!
shelly
Nov 09, 2008
The defects in these videos is no different than what happens during a fox news broadcast
linda
Nov 10, 2008
performer A at 50 seconds into his video looks like he SPLICED two separate performances together
Grace
Nov 10, 2008
As he notes on the You Tube site, performer C played the keyboards into a computer to keep the sound clean, which it is. Anyone whose made videos this way would realize that lose of a few video frames occurs unless you have high end proceeses to mesh the video and audio together. Try it.
debra
Nov 17, 2008
based on 196 votes. total weighed votes performer A 636, preformer C 657
Monica
Nov 18, 2008
Hi Debra, per the rules the winner would not be based on the amount of people who voted but decided from a combination of this poll, the YouTube ratings from the public, our internal decision and the quality of the performance.
Based on our previous experiences with contests, when we created the rules we felt that just basing the content award on the number of votes alone would potentially create challenges with the integrity of the contest.
Thank you everyone for your comments! You’ve all made this first month’s contest a success!
alex
Nov 18, 2008
Congratulations to performer C.
Monica
Nov 18, 2008
Thanks for your comment, Alex. I’m sorry if I misled our musiclovers today, but we have not yet announced the winner. That will happen very shortly; the head of our team would like to say a few words.
MARY SOILEX
Dec 29, 2008
number three is mein favorite,,,but i ll tell ya….number two was a blast und number one had excitement
but they all played some wrong notes…and some were fakers
i wish i hearda real piano..those leyboards dunt do it for me
but bravo meistros und keep up teh good work. yull get to teh carnegie hall someday..if i know mine onions,
Leona
Mar 24, 2009
first of all, i have never heard this song before so not sure of how it should sound
First performer i thought was very good, showed enthusian in his playing of the piano
second performer on the guitar, i thought was horrible, notes very repeatitive
third performer, did not even look at the piano to see where
the keys were, looked like the piano was programmed to play this song