Posted by: SemiLiveMusic
Having thousands of songs - 09/22/04 07:20 AM
I was recently walking through the store and Come Monday by Jimmy Buffet comes on. I play several of his songs but that's not a favorite, so, at first, I thought maybe I should add that one. But it's not a favorite. Sure enough, somebody requested that song at last gig.
Now, as far as requests go, you guys always seem to fulfill them but heck, I can't remember lyrics. But some people will tip you if you play a request. I like money. I need money. But I have to have a cheat sheet because I can only remember fragments of songs. I want to do this all on laptop but I haven't yet done it.
So, I was thinking, heck, no telling how many songs you could have with a laptop. I mean, there are literally thousands of songs I could play if I'm looking at the lyric/chords. I know the melodies.
I probably have almost a thousand song lyrics in text files. I guess I could just keep adding them daily and build a giant database.
How do you guys pull up a song? I mean, you are going to have to search for it on the hard drive. Anything that's made it faster to find?
Of course, in pop/rock/country/blues, my gosh, how many gazillion songs are there? A bunch.
Now, as far as requests go, you guys always seem to fulfill them but heck, I can't remember lyrics. But some people will tip you if you play a request. I like money. I need money. But I have to have a cheat sheet because I can only remember fragments of songs. I want to do this all on laptop but I haven't yet done it.
So, I was thinking, heck, no telling how many songs you could have with a laptop. I mean, there are literally thousands of songs I could play if I'm looking at the lyric/chords. I know the melodies.
I probably have almost a thousand song lyrics in text files. I guess I could just keep adding them daily and build a giant database.
How do you guys pull up a song? I mean, you are going to have to search for it on the hard drive. Anything that's made it faster to find?
Of course, in pop/rock/country/blues, my gosh, how many gazillion songs are there? A bunch.