In this 13th issue of Music Today, we discover and highlight five (5) extraordinary music posts from all over the Steemit community.

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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.

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#### 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 nine (9) 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

![Just Green Line (Absolute).png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPSf3waj1nt82bR3GsYduFunqvCJ5EE3bPSqf48jS3g1W/Just%20Green%20Line%20(Absolute).png)

### <center>For @smacommunity written by: @chiefmappster</center>

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### <center>Smooth Criminal (Cover) | by: @kkarenmp</center>

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Wowwwwww yes what a creative and talented cover of the legend Michael Jackson.

@kkarenmp does such an amazing job playing the violin and mirroring that classic Smooth Criminal.

This is one Open Mic entry you will enjoy fully.  So talented to be able to pull this off in such a quality fashion.

Appreciate you sharing the lyrics to follow along and the video gives such an awesome perspective of your violin-playing skills.

Thanks for the time and effort that went into creating this content for the community to enjoy.


##### Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/openmic/@kkarenmp/2iym9oh3

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### <center>Music for Life! Learn Basics & Techniques| by: @glenyosores</center>

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Holy smokes what a comprehensive guide to learning how to play a guitar.

Not only does @glenyosores share a little backstory about himself learning the guitar, but he dives in to the basics of learning the guitar and gives the community amazing tips to achieve this.

The amount of information in this post is absolutely incredible and no doubt provides great value to the community.

I also love the quality pictures he includes to reiterate his tips and also how he shares two songs with us to learn the basics on.

Such a high-quality music tutorial.  Thanks for putting the time and effort into creating this post.

##### Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/music/@glenyosores/music-for-life-learn-basics-and-techniques-in-guitar-playing-play-like-a-pro

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### <center>How to Strum A Ukulele | by: @ukuleletutorials</center>

<center>[![uk.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfUN9pQ9dXFWhkK8M3hvWHSPaG51Vz7A9HNJSHHZzo5KS/uk.jpg)](https://dlive.io/video/ukuleletutorials/f5ca2690-3e97-11e8-bfed-63766378c43c)</center>

Wow what a professional strumming tutorial from @ukuleletutorials.  

Not only does he have a professional video with graphics intertwined, he has such an amazing text version of the information as well.  So if you prefer videos the videos is very high-quality and takes you through tuning and strumming which is material that is lacking for beginners of this instrument.  And if you prefer text he has provided an awesome flowing, easy to read and understand text version of a beginner's guide to strumming a ukulele.

Appreciate the professionalism and the drive to help other Steemians learn.  Much love and respect.


##### Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/dlive/@ukuleletutorials/f5ca2690-3e97-11e8-bfed-63766378c43c
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### <center>One Step | by: @wolfnworbeikood</center>

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Wow what a heart-wrenching and meaningful track from @wolfnworbeikood.

The beat allows for @wolfnworbeikood lyrics and delivery of them to maintain the central focus. Talking about suicide is a hard topic to rap about and using personal experience is one way to bridge that gap.

Appreciate you sharing these soul-resonating lyrics so we can follow along and receive the full message you are preaching. Means a lot you are willing to rap about this topic on hopes of helping other souls.

Much love and respect.

##### Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/dsound/@wolfnworbeikood/20180414t183146289z-second-womb--one-step--live-from-the-cave-volume-007
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### <center>Winter Be Gone | by: @jeffandhisguitar</center>

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What a lovely integration of the chord provided in the Chord Challenge.  @jeffandhisguitar provides us with such an uplifting guitar it makes looking out at the cold rain/snow irrelevant.

His guitar playing raises my vibrations to a great level and that was just with the audio.  And then he puts in that extra work to provide a video that gives a fun insight into his guitar playing.  Especially with such a beautiful scenery in Cambodia.

Love the passion and positivity he exudes in the video and through his audio. What a way to help influence the world in a positive manner.

Appreciate the time and effort you put into creating the audio and video for this entry.



##### Support this Steemian here: https://steemit.com/dsound/@jeffandhisguitar/20180413t200352581z-smla-chord-challenge-4-original-submission-jeff
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Wow we hope you enjoyed these 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:

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Currently the following are the nine (9) 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
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https://steemitimages.com/DQmUbrHbBjGCwB28cvRVJxMKFkn9bwhADEqnfsBrZkwbf58/image.png | [Steemit Music League Challenge](https://steemit.com/smlchallenge/@chiefmappster/steemit-music-league-challenge-s2-r8-announcement-or-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#smlchallenge) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): An open music contest for rappers, MCs, singers, vocalists, musicians, and producers. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmTcAnPt8CcjVYDUvudkoLpU5veDKM8deVv43J7MAyZuAy/image.png | [Beat Battle League](https://steemit.com/beatbattle/@chiefmappster/beat-battle-league-s2-r7-announcement-or-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#beatbattle) (Hosted by @chiefmappster): A challenge for music producers to produce an entry based off a theme or sampled material for that round. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmVMgZbe7bQ83DwR6UTubMHb6qGatFsL6ZcyqYcqSFuDuR/image.png | [SMA Feedback Contest](https://steemit.com/smafeedback/@inthenow/sma-feedback-contest-a-dsound-community-initiative-round-6-updatee) (#smafeedback) (Hosted by @inthenow): A feedback-based contest for music.  Provide music for feedback and/or provide feedback and get rewarded for doing so. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmTUsuW6K2Kfjgqm3YsiBa5rgKoFiMd4vr7LXWs3cUJPVB/image.png | [Chord Challenge](https://steemit.com/smldsound/@antminer/chordchallenge-4-make-music-and-win-prizes-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#chordchallenge) (Hosted by @antminer): A weekly challenge for music producers to create music by using the provided chord progression. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmeF8CJsuu7uoFFULMthZEAfQAh3mAyVTopbY2Ad1qJZ1c/image.png | [Kill The Pad Challenge](https://steemit.com/killthepad/@jamesgetsit/kill-the-pad-challenge-week-9-sponsored-by-sma-this-is-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#killthepad) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit): A weekly topic text-based rap competition for creative writers to show their prowess as a lyricist. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmVqwhB5oUxobx56Ad2xMYzro745SBgCP93qjHof1Uabii/image.png | [Educator Showdown](https://steemit.com/educatorshowdown/@novili/educator-showdown-week-4-recap) (#educatorshowdown) (Hosted by @novili): A bi-weekly competition for people who make educational content revolving around music. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmdotDpTQ6NfaN9ZZYMruSRbLn1uBVg8fJDJXgEHf7ypMZ/image.png | [Poetry Slam](https://steemit.com/contest/@scuzzy/poetry-slam-contest-week-6-or-week-5-winners-week-6-theme-or-spoken-word-challenge-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#poetryslam) (Hosted by @jamesgetsit & @scuzzy): A weekly spoken word contest in the traditional poetry slam competition format. 
https://steemitimages.com/DQmTUsuW6K2Kfjgqm3YsiBa5rgKoFiMd4vr7LXWs3cUJPVB/image.png | [Pitch Perfect](https://steemit.com/pitchperfect/@alejandra23/pitchperfect-week-8-win-votes-and-sbd-with-your-musical-ability-a-dsound-community-initiative) (#pitchperfect) (Hosted by @alejandra23): A weekly challenge for original music creators.
https://steemitimages.com/DQmeF8CJsuu7uoFFULMthZEAfQAh3mAyVTopbY2Ad1qJZ1c/image.png | [Bands About Bands](https://steemit.com/contest/@ftlob/bandsaboutbands-s01-e03-update-or-a-dsound-community-initiative-or-write-about-a-steemit-musician) (#BandsAboutBands) (Hosted by @ftlob): A weekly music review contest covering bands and musicians on Steemit.


### Thank you from the Steem Music Alliance Team:

#### Curators:
@chiefmappster
@ivan.atman
@macchiata

#### Moderators
@edje
@scuzzy
@simgirl
@jamesgetsit
@djlethalskillz

#### Founders
@chiefmappster
@seveaux
@macchiata

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