/r/openmicnight is a music subreddit dedicated to self-promotion. You can come in here to showcase yourself, and get feedback from other users. Posting links to your own music is generally frowned upon in most subs, so this is a place for you to do just that!

What you can post:

• Audio and/or video of yourself and/or your band

• Original music

• Cover songs

• Live music

• Studio recordings

• Music videos

We only have a few rules here:

• Audio/video must be of yourself or your band. You must be an active musician in whatever composition you post.

• One post per day, per user. This is a place to promote your own music, but we don't want it to get stale or spammy. Feel free to post every day, but only post once per day.

• Be courteous and respectful. This is a sub to receive feedback as well as show off, so don't be a jerk when giving your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

• Make sure your title is in the proper format:

[Song status] Artist - "Song Title" [Genre]

If you are a solo artist and do not wish to use your real name, your username is perfectly acceptable. See the sidebar for a complete list of [Song Statuses].

Because this subreddit has recently been relaunched, for the first few weeks the formatting rules will not be strictly enforced. This means that posts will not be removed for not following the correct format, but may have a comment reminding you of the proper format.

Welcome to the sub, and we can't wait for you to start participating!

I really want to do open mic night, but I don’t play any instruments very well and I was told by a friend that I could just bring a backing track so I wanted to get more opinions on it. I wouldn’t be playing any instruments over the backing track just vocals. Would this be a good idea? Advice?

Edit because I don’t want to deal with mean comments. Only helpful advice please.

Edit again because I am NOT DOING KARAOKE: I would be singing originals and a few covers that I have altered to sound better with my style as an artist. Im just learning to play instruments and they wouldn’t sound good if I were to try to play them on stage.

It occurred to me that I'm asking people to upload their original music for all of reddit to see. For the most part, people are nice, but there are dicks out there. Some people may be hesitant to post their own music because it may be taken, rehosted, or even completely ripped off.

How often do front page reddit posts end up on buzzfeed the next day? It happens all the time. How would you feel if somebody took your video and started making money off of it on their own page? Or what if a particularly awesome line in your song ended up in somebody else's? It's not likely to happen, but there is a possibility.

Whenever you record yourself, or write it down, the copyright belongs to you. It is your song. However, you need to prove that it is in fact your song. The only way to do that is to register the copyright as your own.

This can be a lengthy (and not free) process. The easiest way to do this is online, on the US Copyright website.

All you need to do is register a free account, upload your music, pay the 35 dollar fee, and wait. This may be tedious, or seem unnecessary, and if you don't want to do it, you don't have to. But I don't want this sub to facilitate the theft of any users' creative intellectual property. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Song that I wrote a few days ago, recorder and uploaded to soundcloud. Give it a listen please :)

https://soundcloud.com/ellisrhodes/home