From: v_abadie@cox.net
Michael,
That's a great question. Here's my recipe, others may vary.
1. Play your best tune first, no matter what. It doesn't matter if it's
a fast song, a slow song, an instrumental, a ballad, whatever...play
your best tune first.
2. Look over your list and categorize according to things like speed,
key, who sings lead vocals, etc. In my band, we literally take turns in
a certain order on lead vocals. I lead, Mike leads, Dorothy leads, we
play an instrumental. Then we start over, etc. John and Jim don't ever
sing lead, so they don't go into that equation. Your band may do it
differently.
3. Let's be honest, many songs sound a LOT like other songs. Don't do
those similar songs back to back. Break them up.
4. End with your OTHER best song. You know you've got at least two that
you do better than the rest. Start and end with your absolute best.
5. Don't take request. Here's the deal. You look stupid if you (as a
band) don't know the song. If you know it, you probably aren't going to
play it the way they were expecting to hear it. Even if your version is
technically better than "the signature version" of that song, you will
dissappoint the requester.
That's what we do. For the record, we play a few originals, but for the
most part, we're playing other people's music.
Vince
Michael DeBusk wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:43:25 GMT, Joe Cline wrote:
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>> Just as you don't want to do an entire set in one key, you
>> also don't want to do one at a single tempo.
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>This brings to mind a question I've been meaning to ask for years.
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>When you're deciding what songs to play for a crowd, how do you know
>what order to put them in?
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