Bandokie

ESBlonde

Has anyone done this? Essentially karaoke but with a live band.
I’m feeling a little daunted with just under 3 weeks to go. I’ve prepped about 230 songs of various styles from the last 60 years but they need to be fairly recognisable with all the fills, riffs and suchlike close to the original recordings for the bedroom singers that have no experience of stage craft. 

If anyone has done this and can offer tips, I’m all ears.

hollywoodrox

Sounds cool, have a great time

mudslide73

We did it once at a charity event when our singer went down with a tummy bug. It went well considering we were completely unprepared (and with less than 50 songs). Some very nervous punters got up to support the cause with only a couple being regular karaoke singers. The biggest problem was lack of projection due to them being unaware of how loud a band is - general mic distance, mainly. This would sometimes affect their pitch then in turn their confidence. Getting them to come in on time was also an issue. A lot of fun later on once people had loosened up a bit though .

stickyfiddle

This sounds like great fun. I wouldn't worry at all about the details as long as the bones & key hooks are there. 

PolarityMan

Holy shit 230 songs is a big repertoire. 

ESBlonde

PolarityMan said:

Holy shit 230 songs is a big repertoire. 

It certainly is, luckily I’m an old fart so I can draw on 40 years of pop covers. My difficulty is the last two decades kinda passed me by so I struggle to visualise songs by Ed Sheeran or Louis Capaldi. I know they are all 4 chords repeated but they are so bland I just can’t imagine them to start them from cold. Once I’m in they are very easy, unfortunately my guitar is THE melody instrument so I have some swatting to do. Of the rest I might resort to acoustic guitar and tell them it’s the stripped down version with cazoo fills'!