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#433917 - 07/05/17 03:13 PM
Re: Observation from today
[Re: guitpic1]
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Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 6020
Loc: NSW,Australia
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Hi, my 2 cents worth. It's a bit of a pity korg didn't add a few more styles for us oldies, a few more older type ballads , and country ( can't believe I'm requesting country, never played them before ,till I picked up an old Nashville songbook, love the tunes in it).
Anyway, had no idea what KAOSS was till I tried it. Really freaked hubby out when I started playing round with the dance styles and the kaoss function. Haha. Thought at long last she,'s moved into the current century.
Be interesting to see if the midifile to style convertor has improved.
And one good thing for me, I think they have finally fixed one of my major bug bears, my psr converted user styles may finally be using the correct program changes instead of defaulting to Gm. Fingers crossed. No more wrong drum sounds. Only downloaded upgrade yesterday, so busy day ahead. Haha
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Korg PA5X 88 note SX900 Band in a Box 2022
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#433930 - 07/06/17 05:21 AM
Re: Observation from today
[Re: guitpic1]
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Registered: 09/24/02
Posts: 581
Loc: Raleigh, NC
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Hi - interesting topic ... lots of interesting discussion and good points. I have played at "Retirement communities" (and similar senior-oriented venues for ~20+ years. (before that, I played mostly to younger to middle-age type audiences). I also still play at non-senior venues. These days, about 60% of my gigs are at senior-oriented venues.
Lots of people have good points in this discussion. What I do is (1) get a sense of their response to what I choose to play, and (2) always ask for requests - and when I ask for requests, I suggest they can request specific songs, or request kinds of music they like. Based on all of this, and the years doing this, and thinking about their ages (i.e. if they are in their 80s or 90s now, or are in their 70s, what music might they have heard a lot of in their youth and young-adult years), I play a mix. Requests often include 1930s and 1940s songs, and things like "play some classical", "play some slow ballads", "play some Glenn Miller/TommyDorsey", "play a jitterbug", all the way to "play some beach music", "play some rock'n'roll", "play something with a good beat" and things like that.
20 years ago, for senior groups, I played mostly 1920s thru early 1950s music. Now 20 years later, it has 'shifted' so that I play some 1930s and 1940s, but a lot more 1950s and 1960s, and some 1970s music, for senior audiences. I also take note if there are family members in the audience that are younger (children of the residents) and play a few for them too.
One thing I figure too ... let's say (as an example) it's 1954 and an 18 year old is at the prom. The band in 1954 would play some early 1950s popular tunes, but they'd also play the best of the music from the 1940s too, and maybe some 1930s music. This would be in 1954 (as an example). So if someone "grew up" in the early to mid 1950s, when they were growing up they probably heard a lot of 1940s music too, plus the newest music from the 1950s. (just another example).
anyway, interesting stuff!
-Jim
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