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Do whatever works for you.
I share my experience for the benefit of others, and you can take what you want and leave the rest. If I ever sound like I'm telling others what to do, please forgive me. I'm passionate about music.
Insights and incites by Notes Not at all Notes, you always share your knowledge and it is much appreciated. I am in a better mood today.  Everyone has different strengths and something that works well for one person may not be the ideal for someone else. I have seen wonderful corporate entertainers just standing there delivering outstanding vocal performances to prerecorded professionally produced backing tracks. To me that is better than that same person struggling away trying to perform with a badly played, out of tune acoustic guitar. My problem is when a musician looks down his or her nose at another musician and say that he/she is not a "proper musician" because he/she is "playing with backing tracks" or whatever (I know we've had this discussion 100 times before)
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Who's looking down their noses? All we're talking about is putting on a successful gig. If someone gets hired for a gig and they do all the stuff Notes and I say won't work but they love that persons act and they get more gigs, great.
A vocalist standing and singing to full pro quality backing tracks is exactly what most of the lounge acts are doing in Vegas now. I've seen acts where the performers are all singers, none play a lick of anything but they use guitars, basses and even drums in one case as props. Nobody is playing anything. This is Vegas, those shows are still very high level pro quality and tightly produced. A vocalist at a corporate function singing to tracks is pure karaoke and everybody knows that up front. So what? That's not what we're discussing here.
The vision I have of the OP's question is of someone sitting on a stool strumming a guitar. That's fine, lots of folks do that but to do that in front of those same high level pro backing tracks you saw at that function just looks lame in a small little coffee house or quiet lounge. Apples and oranges.
My sister is a very good karaoke singer, she even competed in the southwest US regional competition some years ago. The room had at least 500 people in it, full stage, full PA, lights, props, backup singers and even dancers. She made it to the final 10. It was a good show and I was impressed.
Are you going to try doing all of that at some of the places you play? I doubt it which is why a high level function like that is not the point of this thread.
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Hi Bob. The singer I was referring to was not at a huge Vegas type function. He was providing background music at a very small art exhibition, which traditionally might be the perfect place for a single musician.
Typically, I use several of those in every gig. I also mix original and covers. On Tuesday I played at the lady captain's dinner at the local golf club and I used all of those except sing acappella.
I am just trying to advise Joe to do what is required, there are no rules. Every person and every gig is different. Don't do something blindly because someone told you that this or that is the only way to go. Base it on the sound. "If it sounds good then it is good" has been said many times on this forum.
Joe - Find your own sound. Use your ears. You are never going to sound like someone else so why try. Use your style, go with conviction and the chances are that your conviction will rub off on your audience.
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"Live" music is played with live performers. No tracks. As soon as you add tracks, it is no longer “live” music. It is a “Track Act”. Nothing wrong with that, but let's call it what it is. Bob (Jazzmammal) used to book pro acts. He knows the difference. If you play with tracks- either Karaoke, MIDI, BIAB, whatever – you are a “Track Act” in the lexicon of the business. Another term for it is “Karaoke Jockey”. Snobbery among track acts is really quite amusing.  Regards, Bob
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I wouldn't worry about today's audience.
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