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kalbracht	Talent show, song needed!	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4 (03/21/2009 9:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Hey guys, heres the deal. We have a drummer, bass, guitar(me), and a singer/piano player(shes a girl). We are entered in a talent show and wanna do a sweet song mix. Heres what we had in mind. We were going to mix sara barielle's "bottle it up" and "love song". We had an awesome transition planned but the problem is there is another girl in the talent show thats playing "love song". So being kind, we said we would switch our songs. Now i'm trying to find a sweet mix of 2 or 3 songs (keep in mind our singer is a girl, she is pretty good too) that would run together smoothly and sound good. We like artists like sara barielles, colbie calliat, alicia keys, and all those types of girl artists. So if anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome! Thanks
thomps000		#1	[-]
Posts: 5773 (03/21/2009 9:14 PM) Your mouth was, so dirty... Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Why don't you mix it up and not just use a female songwriter/singer's song? Some of the best covers out there are the ones that really change the song and make it there own. Just a suggestion ------------------------------------ -pat
adam972		#2	[-]
Posts: 1134 (03/21/2009 9:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	when doing a 2-3 song mix its always great to throw something in at the end that has nothing to do with the other three. A band i used to be in, we did this one show, and i even forget the first two songs, but the last one was Aeroplane by the Chilli peppers...pretty much just condensed down to the guitar and bass solo portions, and it was a great change up at the end. Its always good to bring it home with something different that has really wide appeal, and something that is jumping. Your in a talent show, so cheezzzzyyyyy realy works. To be honest i would take two song you really want, and then throw something on the back like something from reo speed wagon or foghat. it will kill, i promise.
ivy		#3	[-]
Posts: 162 (03/22/2009 12:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	adam972 wrote: when doing a 2-3 song mix its always great to throw something in at the end that has nothing to do with the other three. A band i used to be in, we did this one show, and i even forget the first two songs, but the last one was Aeroplane by the Chilli peppers...pretty much just condensed down to the guitar and bass solo portions, and it was a great change up at the end. Its always good to bring it home with something different that has really wide appeal, and something that is jumping. Your in a talent show, so cheezzzzyyyyy realy works. To be honest i would take two song you really want, and then throw something on the back like something from reo speed wagon or foghat. it will kill, i promise. +1 on the cheesy. If you want to win the crowd, you might as well play something everyone knows as your final song. +1 if you can play something that "requires" or generates audience participation. "...just keep me where the light is"
JMMSM		#4	[-]
Posts: 265 (03/22/2009 11:21 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Is your vocalist an Alto or a Soprano? If she is a Soprano you should really give her the most power in these decisions so that she's not hurting herself and so that you don't have to transpose anything. And you don't always have to go with the cheese for a school event even though it's 99% fool proof just sell whatever you do like nothing else. My trio played at our schools "Formal" (haha) about a month ago with a setlist full of blues, originals, and unknown covers. Nobody recognized the stuff but they loved it because we sold it.
kalbracht		#5	[-]
Posts: 4 (03/22/2009 10:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well seeing how we only had a week to come up with it (because we waited so long) we decided to go with a cover of three songs. Its originally by the artist "Boyce Avenue" on youtube. Its a mix of the songs Tatto by Jordin Sparks, Noone by Alicia Keys, and Where is the love by the Black Eyed peas. Its not exactly what I wanted but this will be something we can nail and hopefully take the win with. Thanks for the tips and suggestions guys!
tsanevada		#6	[-]
Posts: 793 (03/22/2009 11:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Either way get a video of it and post it. if anything for entertainment sake. Oh - and good luck. You've got my number but I always knew the score..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YfYBudVXXw
EdmundGTP		#7	[-]
Posts: 286 (03/23/2009 12:03 PM) I'm never speaking up again... Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Lady Gaga - Just dance transition into Your Love by The Outfield. Its do-able.. I've been playing with them on my looper.

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