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As some of y'all know, I'm trying to get back into performing music as a retirement gig. And, I'm going the route of using RealBand as my delivery program.
In order to promote myself, I've joined a couple of sites that help link musicians with people who need bands. And, seeing the wide number of genres represented on the sites, I realize that my demographic is limited if I go in advertising just classic rock.
Problem is, I'm the proverbial old dog who has a hard time learning new tricks. And I've already invested quite a bit of time getting my songs set up with lyrics, chords, MIDI effects changes etc, so the idea of starting over from scratch to create an acoustic set, a jazz set and bluegrass set is overwhelming...
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The thought just occurred to me to copy all of my songs to new directories, and simply regenerate my classic rock songs into other genres, like Jazz, bluegrass and acoustic! It's not uncommon for those genres to include classic rock songs... how many times have Beatles tunes been revisited as Jazz or bluegrass tunes?
This way, most of the work is already done, I don't have to learn new chords or remember new lyrics... (though in the case of the bluegrass set I may have to play the chords on a banjo or mandolin... but that's a small challenge compared to that of starting over from scratch.)
Doing this will enable me to advertise myself under more search categories! And hopefully that will result in more gigs.
What an incredible program!
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Pat, exactly right. And why not?
Many songs have been reinvented by changing the style, a new look and feel so to speak. Go for it!
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it's also a good argument for using RB or BIAB as the delivery method for the trax (as opposed to an MP3 player)
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I once started to do exactly that, Pat. I was like 4 songs into it and I changed gears and decided to finish the original music CD. I have a list of about 10 songs I want to do with completely different feels than the originals. If you remember a while back (WAY back) I posted a version of Wilson Pickett's "634-5789" that was done as a boogie piano song. That kind of thing.... I should get back to that.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.
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That is exactly how I fly Pat, Oh Oh, better watch out! LOL
PS: Now is the time to start finding those Office and House Christmas Parties, many in your town I'd bet.
Later my friend,
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That is exactly how I fly Pat, Oh Oh, better watch out! LOL
PS: Now is the time to start finding those Office and House Christmas Parties, many in your town I'd bet.
Later my friend, Danny! Glad you chimed in! I'm at the point in this journey where I need to pick your brain... you've already solved all the problems I'm just starting to encounter! Be expecting an email or a PM pretty soon, once I organize my thoughts (great idea on the Christmas parties! I need to add some Christmas song demos to my gigsalad page...)
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How refreshing to be on a forum where people don't respond to ideas by saying "nah, THAT won't work!"
I came upon the idea as I analyzed what a person who books wedding entertainment needs. For the rehearsal dinner and/or reception dinner, they need quiet background music... maybe jazz or acoustic.
After dinner, the older relatives want to hear classic rock or country played by a real band.
But the bride and her friends want a DJ who plays the songs they know.
Normally somebody would have to choose ONE of those options... but the right band for the dinners might be the wrong band for the dancing... and the right band for the older guests may not suit the younger guests. What a dilemma for the poor soul who has to book the band and please everybody!
So I'm working up a package that offers all of the above for one price. They won't have to choose one or the other if they can have it all! And BIAB makes it possible (I won't say easy... there's still a lot of work involved...) but without BIAB it would not be in the realm of my possibility to do what I'm planning.
I'm hoping the person responsible for hiring the band is under a lot of pressure to please everybody, so that's what I'm trying to sell: a solution that gives everybody what they want.
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