Steve Wagenheim's Song Contest...Top Prize $100 (Winners Have Been Posted)

Okay folks, I'm finally doing this.

Here is how the contest will work along with the rules and prizes.

I am going to upload to YouTube 3 songs (picked at random from my last
3 CDs)

What you need to do, in order, is guess the genre and sub genre of each
song before you actually hear them.

For example:

A main genre would be ROCK

Sub genres would be:

Punk Rock
Pop Rock
Acid Rock
Progressive Rock
Heavy Metal
Speed Metal
Arena Rock
Country Rock
Soft Rock
Hard Rock
Blues Rock
Psychedelic Rock

And so on.

You must match the sub genre EXACTLY as decided by the judges.

If a genre is an entire genre unto itself (i.e. adult contemporary) then
the genre is good enough. Some genres really don't have sub genres.

And of course a lot of music is subjective and can even cross over to
more than one genre.

(I'll get to the judging soon)

Each person posting will post in the following format:

Song 1 - <sub genre, genre>
Song 2 - <sub genre, genre>
Song 3 - <sub genre, genre>

So your 3 guesses might be:

Song 1 - Classical Orchestral
Song 2 - Opera
Song 3 - Classical Piano

Even though all 3 are part of classical music, they are all different as
far as this contest goes. That's why answers have to be as specific as
possible.

In other words:

Song 1 - Rock
Song 2 - Pop
Song 3 - Country

Isn't going to cut it for this contest. Generic responses will not be
considered.

The date the contest will close and the songs uploaded to YouTube is
August 22, 2009.

Now we get to judging.

Because I want to be as fair about this as possible, I am going to open
the judging up to the members of this forum. The reason is because I have
a hard time classifying my own music. That should give you an idea of
how hard this is going to be. This way, what the majority of the members
decides for each song, that's what I'm going with...up to a point.

In other words, if a song features a piano, some strings and a set of
bagpipes and the members call it heavy metal just to allow somebody to
win, I'm going to overrule the judges decision. You have to be at least
reasonable with your choices.

Ultimately, my decision is final but I'm going to try to leave this contest
in your hands.

Now the prizes.

Song 1 Correct - $25
Song 2 Correct - $15
Song 3 Correct - $10

Trifecta (getting all 3 right) - $100

Now, naturally, more than one person might pick the correct genre for
any of the songs. Since only one prize is given for each song, the first
person to get the right genre will be given the prize.

Also, the first person to pick the trifecta will get the $100.

There is one last prize.

Let me be right up front about these songs. I am not a professional,
Don't expect to hear anything that's going to make the hall of fame.

However, I do value constructive feedback on my stuff.

So...the person who gives the best feedback on the tunes (offering
suggestions for improvement, what you liked, didn't like, why or why not
you think the music has commercial appeal) that person will get any one
of my products FREE.

To receive a money prize, you MUST have a PayPal account.

Okay, here are all the dates:


August 22 - All guesses must be in by this date
Augest 27 - All judging of songs for genre classification must be done
August 30 - All feedback must be posted
August 31 - All winners will be picked

That's it. That's the contest. $150 in prizes plus one of my products will
be given away. If nobody wins the trifecta, the money will be carried
over to the next contest.

Yes, there WILL be others.

Let the games begin.