Whoa, now THAT was a song! (as tears welled up with some lines that struck home). OK, spill the beans; how did you get those stems or separate the parts? Perhaps purchase like last time? Talk about complexity in the full recording. Oh yeah, and signed right up for the new channel (no-brainer) :)
Hey. I have a question. I’m planning a probably one-man show from October onwards. The short version is: do you have any tips / advice about learning material? I ask ‘coz you have 200 songs under your belt, that’s impressive! I’d settle for 25 or 30 really deeply embedded in my memory. I’ve played in a lot of live bands, mainly as a guitarist, singing backing vocals, and maybe doing lead vocals on a handful, like 6 songs or so. So doing a potentially one man show is really in at the deep end. I say potentially because from time to time if other musos I know are available they may join me, however the core needs to be me on my own. Any advice appreciated?
Three 45m sets requires roughly 50 songs. (15 songs x 3m each = 45m)
Start with things that are easy to memorize—things you already know the words to, things you've played in other people's bands, etc.
Don't get too attached to or precious about what goes into your first solo show—the best way to know what to learn next is to triangulate a path between your interest and what people request.
Whoa, now THAT was a song! (as tears welled up with some lines that struck home). OK, spill the beans; how did you get those stems or separate the parts? Perhaps purchase like last time? Talk about complexity in the full recording. Oh yeah, and signed right up for the new channel (no-brainer) :)
I bought those from Karaoke Version. I’ll show you how to do your own in SongOS :)
Perfect. Thank you. I’ll give it a read.
Hey. I have a question. I’m planning a probably one-man show from October onwards. The short version is: do you have any tips / advice about learning material? I ask ‘coz you have 200 songs under your belt, that’s impressive! I’d settle for 25 or 30 really deeply embedded in my memory. I’ve played in a lot of live bands, mainly as a guitarist, singing backing vocals, and maybe doing lead vocals on a handful, like 6 songs or so. So doing a potentially one man show is really in at the deep end. I say potentially because from time to time if other musos I know are available they may join me, however the core needs to be me on my own. Any advice appreciated?
Hey Nic,
I wrote a little bit about my process here: https://open.substack.com/pub/notesonguitar/p/how-to-learn-500-songs?r=1fo2i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Three 45m sets requires roughly 50 songs. (15 songs x 3m each = 45m)
Start with things that are easy to memorize—things you already know the words to, things you've played in other people's bands, etc.
Don't get too attached to or precious about what goes into your first solo show—the best way to know what to learn next is to triangulate a path between your interest and what people request.
Hope that's helpful.