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Funnily enough I find it much easier to learn lyrics if I’m also playing guitar. I think it sort of doubles the amount of cues in my brain.
We used to rehearse all the time. Not to the point of getting them right, but to the point where we couldn’t get them wrong. Genuine autopilot was possible.
As is happens that band got together 18 years after we last played together, did 1 rehearsal to tweak arrangements for older and deeper voices and then did a gig. It went very well.
But as stated they should be an emergency support thing, not a don’t put the work in thing.
These days I think the problem would be that my eyesight wouldn’t be good enough to see an iPad hidden in a monitor!
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For everything else it must be invisible if it is there at all.
The ones who stare at the sheets are the ones who rehearse with them and get into the habit. They should learn the lyrics at home and rehearse without, then when they are available at the gig for emergencies they aren’t part of the normal routine for the singer.
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It's just awful. I'd take a singer who forgets the odd line over that any day of the week.
If it's a well known cover it's even easier - get the crowd to join in!
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I also remember seeing Tom Jones in some studio somewhere professing that the blues was his first love and the core of his musical self, and then he went on to sing the Fred McDowell song "You've Got To Move" whilst reading the reletaively few words off a piece of paper. Equally bin-worthy in my opinion.
If they haven't got the time to learn their own words then I haven't got the time to listen to them.
Also - I was trying to be a bit more polite than that, but overall my view is, if you haven't remembered the lyrics then you are not ready to perform the song.
Jukeboxes are allowed as you say - a 5 hour set from a Wedding band is a very different kettle of mediocrity. *
* and before anyone gets offended - I've been there and bought the t-shirt.
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A good communicator will find a way, iPad or not.
Forum: nope. You’re wrong.
I already knew that the one person I wanted to read this post would not be here to do so, but I'm posting it anyway.
Learn the song, simple. Trying to read and play at the same time really isn't happening. Trying to read, sing, play and perform at the same time - don't be silly