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Out of interest: what does the colour coding in your set lists indicate?

Re: Color coding.
When I was playing first in Cold Lake, for the military, I was trying to make them dance instead of drinking bear. So, the colors to classify the songs by the "Dancing/ Singing" characteristic of the song so,
From red to gray.
Red:a song that I'm sure they will Dance on or sing on it
Then Orange, a bit less but pretty sure they will dance or....
Yellow, then, green, then light blue, then dark blue, then Purple, then light gray, then Dark Grey.
Also, as the guitarist/leader was always saying that the goal was to make people dancing but was also choosing song on his personal interest, it was a way for us to see if we had a good balance or if it was too much on the "Cold" color side.
You see that better in the rock Setlist with "Thursday Night Riders".
For the second band, I Said : we want people dance at all cost with us as there is too much classic rock band and very few Party/dance band....So, or course, the list is way more red or orange...But we were surprised, the song "One good reaso" was a Blue for me, because slow tempo and so on, but our new bassist said that people dance on it, so....
You could use the color for tempo, I was close to do that, like faster tempo between 150 to 180 = red etc, and decreasing....
It could give an indication very fast on a characteristic that is important for you....
That's it...
Sincerely

That makes sense, thank you!

Oups, sorry, I meant drinking "beer" of course, not "bear"...Ok, we are tough in Canada but even in the military, I don't thin they drink "bear"that often

Quai34, thanks for sharing your song lists and your thoughts on what your band plays, including the colors.
Our band is thinking about learning "I Wish". You've got that as a Red color. We are hoping this would go over well (and we actually have a trumpet and sax player). What was your audience's reaction to it?

As an solitare artefact. It looks good on a wooden TV table. I use it instead of TV screen, it looks good, it blinks sometimes...even it plays sometimes some virginal music of pre-Classicism period...sometimes it makes a futuristic sci-fi soundscapes. So throw away your TV screen. This is much better.

harmonizer wrote:Quai34, thanks for sharing your song lists and your thoughts on what your band plays, including the colors.
Our band is thinking about learning "I Wish". You've got that as a Red color. We are hoping this would go over well (and we actually have a trumpet and sax player). What was your audience's reaction to it?

Good on this one with the Rock Band because we have "followers", Thursday Night Riders is the Official band of the Harley Davidson Club in Winnipeg, so, whatever we play, they are finally happy and dance on it...When I say followers, I mean, even if we had 6 gigs last year, it was a minimum of 500 people!!!
Even if the version I have with them is not good according to me because they said " we play our version, because Stevie Wonder sucks".... which means a version were the Clavinet is replaced with heavy distorted guitar....But they didn't have any keys player before me so....
For the second band, I haven't played it live yet, I'm still trying to get the Clavinet part in a loop on my Ditto X4 and play the E. Piano live....For the brass, I layered some Nord samples with some XV5080 external cards samples that I have in it...The sound is great, but sure, you will be killing it with a sax and trumpet player....But in a live situation, good samples well played (I mean, I always ask myself, what would be the sax part, what would be the trumpet part and then, I adjust the voicing to fit in...I try to remember what I had learnt back in the days at the "Berkley/Bercovitz Music School in Paris on how to write/arrange brass voicing...) could sound really good....
So, as we are practicing the 3 first sets on the "Coming out " gig, "I wish" was put aside because we wanted first to play the post 2010's songs...
The set 5, which is where "I wish" is, will be our "special request " list, so, we will be ready/playing not in the next future....But I will let you know when I will have more feedback on it...

ChillOnTheSun wrote:As an solitare artefact. It looks good on a wooden TV table. I use it instead of TV screen, it looks good, it blinks sometimes...even it plays sometimes some virginal music of pre-Classicism period...sometimes it makes a futuristic sci-fi soundscapes. So throw away your TV screen. This is much better.

There is no Clavinet on “I Wish”. There is an electric bass, a Rhodes doubling bass and playing chords, and three separate monophonic synth lines, one of which mostly doubles the bass, as well.

Ok, yes, sorry, as I said, we haven't practiced it for a while but maybe I was thinking about the synth lines...the fact is I can't not find a way to do both Rhodes plus brass plus the other lines....So, that's why my idea was to try to loop them....
Thanks for the rectification....