Music Video Contest - Win Free Piano Music!
If you like making videos for YouTube, and if you like my original piano music, you can combine the two and possibly win a collection of albums and free sheet music! It can be as simple as recording and uploading a video of you (or a family member) playing my songs on the piano. So... to encourage fans like yourself to make and uploads videos that feature my piano music, I'm running a contest for free!
Music Video Contest
From February 1st to April 1st 2026...CONTEST DETAILS...
There will be up to FOUR Winners!
1) Best Use of Photos/Still Images.
Use your favorite photos, arrange them into a theme that matches the song you're using.
2) The Most Artistic/Creative Video.
Pretty much open to anything. Lots of liberty here, including use of images/video/dialog... anything that has an artistic bent to it and is more than just still images. Be creative! Watch this video for inspiration: https://youtu.be/ZQlDfwTHDmU?si=PwW579VzK31te7aJ
3) The Best Musical Performance.
This mean YOU performing my song (or with my song if you play an instrument other than piano) and putting it up on YouTube for the world (and me) to see! I may select multiple winners here, depending on the number of submissions I get.
4) The Most Views!
Purely based on views... promote your video any way you want, share it with friends... the video with the most views at the end of the contest wins!
Here's What to Do...
1) Create a video that features any of my recorded solo piano music. The my song you choose to add to your video MUST NOT BE a clip. The song must be in its entirety. Therefore, your video must be the length of my song. It can be any song you like... from any of my albums... so long as my music is part of the video. Don't know how to create videos or add music to a video? Lots of info out there on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3zFePU1uvtc?si=dt_mblHs5fNpqQAl
2) Upload the video to your YouTube account and make it public. Make sure you include both my name and the song title in the video itself, as well as in the video title and in the video description! A credit in the video description should appear in the video as follows...
"Song Title"
Solo Piano courtesy of James Lazzeroni
https://jamespianomusic.blogspot.com
3) Send an email to me at jameslazzeroni@gmail.com with a link to the video so I can log that as an official contest entry. You MUST send an email with a link to the video and note that it's an entry for me to include the video in the contest. I'll reply to your entry to acknowledge receipt of it.
4) You may get a notice from YouTube letting you know your music is using copyrighted material... If you do, it's OK... that's supposed to happen. Simply click on the "acknowledge" button in YouTube when you get this notice. It's fine, and you have my permission to use the music.
Official Rules:
1) The video must be posted to YouTube on or after February 1st, 2026. I won't be including already existing videos in the contest. So only videos posted on or after February 1st will be considered.
2) You can use my music however you like, but please keep the subject matter of the video family-friendly. I'm not going to give an award to videos that I wouldn't want kids to watch. You can use my piano music in your YouTube videos for FREE.
3) The deadline is April 1st, 2026!
4) Your email address is required because I will use this method to notify you if you win the contest.
5) If I don't get many contest entries in one particular category, I may fold that category into another category. So the categories and the number of winners may change. The same person cannot win in two categories... so you can only "win" once, though you can submit multiple times!
Questions? Email me at jameslazzeroni@gmail.com
James Lazzeroni
