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Very nice. Got a chuckle out of this.
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"Performance anxiety" can mean you do everything a little faster then planned (try videoing yourself to see), and this means you need more songs.
getyoru song list together, at home, and time yourself with it. Write down the 15 minute intervals on the list so you know approximately where you are during the gig - if you find yourself getting ahead of the timing, you know you are playing too fast and will need to slow down an dadd a few songs to each set.
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Loved this!
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Some of my gigs are much like being paid to set in a corner and play "anything" (literally). It's just being paid to practice, so I can play gigs and only play perhaps 1 tune (just improv) / set. They just want something for the "aura" like in a ritzy French restaurant. I sometimes just practice classical pieces (bring some violin music like the Double Violin Concerto by Bach).
On an actual listening gig, I don't sing at all, so I usually play ~5-10 minutes tunes and improvise on them and that works fine so maybe 5 tunes / hour or 10-20 / night. This whole thing about boring has much more to do with how good you are, and how interested and open minded and musical your audience is than any formulaic thoughts about it. People aren't all bored by good solo playing, nor are they all entertained by singers that hold a guitar. The truth is somewhere in the midst of those thoughts. |
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You know the songs you play and how long they are. I use a simple rule of thumb that usually pans out just fine ... 12 - 15 songs per hour. That's a 45 minute set for each clock hour.
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We fill 3 hours with 2 sets of 18 - 20 songs each. We don't chat a lot. If one of us had the story telling skills of a Springsteen, and if we wrote ourselves some long intros/outros, we could probably stretch half that into 3 hours.
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My gigs vary as far as the number of songs I do. If it's a lively crowd, I communicate with them. I tell jokes, laugh at myself, laugh at their jokes, answer their questions. As far as songs go, I think the 12-15 per hour range is decent. In a bar or coffeehouse, I make sure I talk with people, even if it's just asking them "Am I too loud?" Just something that crosses the void between people that don't know each other. I want them to feel that I'm approachable. It never hurts to make "human contact" with them. I'm going for tips as well as what the venue is paying me. And of course, there are gigs where all you literally are is noise in the background. Like others, I do a lot of instrumental stuff and kind of practice and run through my favorite melodies.
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If you want to cover four hours without a repeat you should have about 45 to 50 songs on your set list.
I play in an instrumental surf music band. If you know Pipeline, Baja, Hawaii Five O, you know us. We play about 50 songs during an evening. Each of our three sets run about 16 to 17 songs and run about an hour. With two 15/20 minute breaks and a little talking we can cover about 4 hours without a repeat unless someone asks.
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For a bar - good luck people spend to much time in
a bar and will hear repeats, and they are repeat customers and everyone hates repeats on a radio, don't you? for a coffee bar - 45 minute set maybe 60 minutes then take a 15-20 minute breaks, people don't come back everyday and they don't stay long, they get a check and leave. so you alway have a new group of people Good luck, with whatever you do... |
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3. "American Pie," "Alice's Restaurant," and all 932 stanzas of "Staggerlee."
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having done it I say 10 add request per set know your crowd 3 to 4 sets and most of all have fun but don't forget the words makes for an uncomfortable night.
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