Practical articles about managing your repertoire, online songbooks and organizing song lyrics in a music band.
Between one song and the next at a wedding, you have about fifteen seconds. That is how long the MC's announcement lasts - and in that time, the entire band must be ready. See how Lyricco eliminates dead air between songs.
No internet at the wedding venue? The Lyricco app for Android or Windows eliminates this problem entirely - local sync without internet. For those who need internet on stage for other reasons: an LTE router with a SIM card for around 50 EUR.
In our band, Android, Windows, and iPad all play at the same time. Lyricco syncs all of them at once - without buying special, uniform hardware.
A pianist in the middle of a song, both hands on the keyboard, lyrics reaching the bottom of the screen. How to scroll? In a band, you usually do not need extra hardware.
You are playing in a dark venue, you open the app and hundreds of nits of white background hit you. After two hours, your eyes ache. How to set up your tablet so the text is readable without blinding.
WhatsApp, USB drives, a folder on the hard drive - everyone has lyrics downloaded at a different time. At rehearsal, three people play three versions of the chorus. How to end this once and for all.
A phone fits in your pocket and is always at hand. A tablet needs a stand. But when reading lyrics from a meter away, the difference in readability is huge. A practical comparison.
A binder with printouts will never run out of battery and never crash. But it will not update itself, search for a song in 5 seconds, or tell the rest of the band what is next. An honest comparison.
Outdoor wedding, beautiful weather, sun right in the screen. Or wind that blows sheet music off the stand. Playing outside means different conditions than indoors - and different demands on your gear.
Manual transposition of all chords in a song takes a good fifteen minutes if you do it in Word. Learn how to do it automatically in seconds - and never rewrite chords by hand again.
A wedding band, multiple vocalists, each with their own range. How Lyricco lets every musician prepare their part before rehearsal - and ensures that what was practiced looks the same on stage.
ChordPro is a simple format for writing song lyrics together with chords. If you play in a band and use chords, it is worth knowing - it saves time and eliminates errors during transposition.
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