The sheet flat on the stage for prompting purposes is a good tip for
songs that have lyrics that are easy to screw up, but it seems like
learning the words is a fairly early and necessary step along the way
to getting on top of a song, getting it performance ready. I too have
failing-memory issues at times, but going over problem words
immediately before a gig seems to work, and I'm much happier not
having to try to read something while on stage...particularly since
the advent of trifocals, which do really disturbing things to lines of
type, especially at critical moments. I do better with my aging
memory.
On Jul 2, 1:42 pm, Pat Murphree <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our band chose the name "The Foggy Memory Boys" so we can get away with
> things like forgotten lyrics and other screw-ups. It also excuses the use of
> stands.
>
> Murph
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Holstein Kid" <[email protected]>
> To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:58:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: To stand, or not??
>
> Thought I might throw this out there. The new group I’m in is having a
> little trouble remembering lyrics to our tunes at this stage, and
> we’ve got a performance on Sat night. Because we’re only doing up to
> six tunes, I suggested we shouldn’t have a music stand in sight. I
> think it looks more professional not to have a stand and you should
> know your music. Right or not so?
>
> Perhaps if we were doing several sets it might be a different story. I
> noticed a photo of EC and Co. on his recent tour with music stands on
> stage. It’s obviously acceptable to do this and I wonder if that was
> for a full show which is what it looked like.
>
> Any opinion or rule of thumb you guys go by?
>
> HK
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