Performance Ideas Needed

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2012/01/11 15:32:17 (permalink)

Performance Ideas Needed

[size=3 font="times new roman"]I perform as a one-man band. I use my own custom backing tracks created with Band-In-A-Box or Cakewalk Music Creator. Over that, I sing the vocals and/or play keyboard, saxophone, clarinet. With well over 550 songs, I am finding 6 books of lyrics and (when necessary) scores a bit unwieldy, especially when jumping from book to book for audience requests. This method wastes too much valuable time. There has to be an electronic way to do this, using tablets perhaps. No, karaoke is not the answer – I would need to sync the lyrics on one tablet to the musical score on the other tablet. More complicated yet is the fact that my aging eyes would need only a portion of the song viewable (in big letters and notes, of course), and then scroll as the song progresses. BTW, I use MediaMonkey as my database program and player. Anybody out there with the same needs? Or, better yet, the solution?
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    Re:Performance Ideas Needed 2012/01/12 07:33:16 (permalink)
    Cakewalk does that already. 

    There is a Lyric view in both MC and BB, so no matter which one you use, you have the option to display lyrics.

    I saw a 2 man band a few months back in a Nursing home where I was working. The singer, keyboard player had a laptop on a stand and was running cakewalk. He had it set up so that as he was talking between songs, he was searching and loading the next song. After the song loaded, a window opened and it was scrolling the lyrics in the song on the screen. 

    That window was quite large and it was easy for me to read the lyrics from where I was working 10 feet behind them. 

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