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I have to play a large volume of requests from a playlist numbering into hundreds of songs, and most gigs will play at least one song I’ve never played before - usually as a first dance with the extra pressure not to mess it up - so I make no apologies for having lyrics and chord sheets in front of me. Classical musicians don’t get a hard time for having their music in front of them.
learn the songs…
if you can’t be bothered to learn the lyrics you have no business being up “on stage”
how would you feel if the bass player/drummer/keys didn’t know the songs?
why should a singist be any different?…
Mmm...
There are lots of lyric apps for Android and lots of relatively cheap Android tablets, Acer are pretty good.
Even a used tablet that's not too old will be fine.
Apps to explore:
Lyric Pad
if your being paid to put on a show you should know your set… doesn’t matter if you have 1 song or 100 songs…
our old function band had well over 120 songs to choose from and we knew them all inside and out…
be professional!…
If you're taking requests all night and busking by ear, that's different. But IME that's more of an instrumental piano man thing.
If the set list is known, learn the set.
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a pro orchestra probably rehearses once maybe twice before performing… and to be fair a musician in an orchestra will probably play that piece maybe two or three time in his lifetime… there are 10’s of thousands of classical works out there… they can’t be expected to learn everything off by heart…
now a soloist, they usually perform without sheet music as they “learn” the piece they will be playing…
for a singer, in a pub covers or function band not to know the words is unprofessional…
if you’re up there performing and the audience knows the words verbatim… so should you!….
And the purpose of an orchestral performance is qualitatively different to a rock gig or a pop concert.
It's really not difficult. Different situations have different expectations, but if you are putting on a show, you need to know the material.
There are exceptional circumstances (e.g. the Strictly band) but generally they are not regular bands who rehearse and perform a known set list as a show. Orchestras, pit bands etc are different situations.