4 Ways Musicians Can Communicate On Stage To Be More Flexible
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Tips & tricks to help everyone in the band stay on the same page when things get off the rails.
Good bands aren’t perfect bands. Things can go wrong even for the best. But when they do, they have ways to communicate with each other to avoid any noticeable errors.
In this episode of Behind the Space Bar, you’ll learn four ways the pros communicate with each other on stage.
1. Hand signals (on stage charades!)
2. Talk-back mics (low- and high-tech options)
3. Plan for the unplanned
4. Rehearse “safe” words
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00:00 Introduction
00:46 Why Better Communication Matters
01:31 Hand Signals
04:21 Use a Talkback Mic
07:53 Plan
08:50 Rehearse a "Safe" Word
10:05 Your Band will LOVE you for this
10:31 How have you improved communication?
10:51 Outro
In-ears for everyone and a talkback mic was a GAME CHANGER for our band. Night and day for calling audibles on the fly, which we do at every single show. We watched dozens of your videos to get our 300-song Ableton file going. Thanks for all you do!!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
God bless you and God bless anyone reading this! Hope you have an awesome day! Seek him while you can! Jesus is the way and the only way and he is returning soon! Whenever you think you aren't loved... Remember the ultimate sacrifice was for love! ENDING YOUR LIFE IS NEVER THE ANSWER!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 KJV
The wages of sin is death (hell) but Jesus paid our debt on the cross, for our salvation! We must turn to God and away from our sinful ways, Confess Jesus is Lord and believe with our hearts that he was risen from the dead by God, and we must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit and live by His word and Commandments! Trust that God will help with the rest!
Seek God today before it's too late! Today could be your last day on earth!
To God Be The Glory!
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Great information
Thanks!
Thank you for talking about such an important topic!
For years, worship teams in our church use hand signals. We're calling it "finger system" 😅
It works like this: for the first section of the song (usually Verse)- you show ☝🏻.
Second section (Pre-Chorus or Chorus) - ✌🏻.
Third section - bridge and so on.
There were very few songs with more than four different parts. Also, a pinkie means Instrumental. And zero 👌🏻 (more like OK, tbh) is the signal for finishing the song.
When my friend and I started our own worship team, we really wanted to get rid of these signs because we thought (and still do) that they look very silly on stage. In particular, because lead vocalist is the one who's doing that and they are always visible to congregation.
Before the pandemic, there were no video recording or stream of services in this church and, in general, the culture sounds like: during a prayer meeting you shouldn't be unfocused and look too much at the musicians.
But nevertheless, me and my team members really wanted to stop using that. So we started rehearsing songs with particular structure. Usually as it is in the reference song. That way we always knew how many times, for example, the chorus should be repeated before we move on to the next verse or bridge. Sometimes vocalist would still use the same gesture you demonstrated, indicating a repeat of current section.
However, due to the specifics of the prayer style in this church, we understood that we still need flexibility. So recently I got this idea to use TouchOSC for this.
So I'm a keyboard player, in my Ableton Live project I have audio clips for indication of each section of a song as well as song titles. The vocalist has a phone/tablet with a grid of buttons they can press to play these clips. This way we have a flexible audio guide.
Of course, this is only possible because we play with in-ear monitors. We haven't tried using TouchOSC in this way yet, but I suspect that vocalist pressing some buttons on their phone might look even funnier than one making hand signals. However, if the phone/tablet will just lie nearby on the note stand (which is always there, where our vocalists are 😄), it can be done inconspicuously, so that the audience doesn't pay attention to it.
Also I have concerns about the reliability of using TouchOSC on stage. However, I can't wait to finally try it out!
Ideally, I really want us to finally start playing with playbacks always (we're still on the way to that, which is why your videos are so helpful for me), then the Set project will have a guide that will voice the next section of the song or the title of the next song.
But there's still one problem: in a situation where vocalist would use their hand to signal "repeat this section", I'd unmute the "Repeat" track and Ableton would go to the previous marker, BUT at the same time in our in-ears everyone will hear the name of the next section of the song, because that audio guide clip is in the last bar, 4 measures before next section start.
So, if one of the musicians doesn't see signals of the vocalist, they will hear the guide voicing the next part, and won't know that we are going to repeat the part that we're playing now. I'm still figuring out how to solve this problem and would appreciate your advice 🙌🏻
Sorry for a very long comment, I hope my thoughts make some sense to you and might be interesting to somebody 🙂
Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
God bless you and God bless anyone reading this! Hope you have an awesome day! Seek him while you can! Jesus is the way and the only way and he is returning soon! Whenever you think you aren't loved... Remember the ultimate sacrifice was for love! ENDING YOUR LIFE IS NEVER THE ANSWER!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 KJV
The wages of sin is death (hell) but Jesus paid our debt on the cross, for our salvation! We must turn to God and away from our sinful ways, Confess Jesus is Lord and believe with our hearts that he was risen from the dead by God, and we must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit and live by His word and Commandments! Trust that God will help with the rest!
Seek God today before it's too late! Today could be your last day on earth!
To God Be The Glory!
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Dios te bendiga y Dios bendiga a Todos los que estan leyendo esto! Deseo que tengan un hermoso dia! Buscad a Dios mientras pueda ser hallado! Jesus es el camino y el unico camino y regresa pronto! Recuerda cuando te sientas que no eres amado... el mayor sacrificio se hizo por amor! EL SUICIDIO NUNCA ES LA RESPUESTA!
Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna.
S. Juan 3:16 RVR1960
La paga del pecado es muerte (infierno) pero Cristo pagó nuestra deuda en la cruz para nuestra salvacion! Debemos volvernos a Dios y apartarnos de nuestros caminos pecaminosos, confesar que Jesús es el Señor y creer con nuestro corazón que fue resucitado de entre los muertos por Dios, y debemos de ser bautizados en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo y vivir por Su palabra y mandamientos! Confia que Dios ayudara con el resto!
Busca a Dios, antes de que sea muy tarde! Hoy podria ser tu ultimo dia en la tierra!
A Dios Sea La Gloria!
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Dios te bendiga y Dios bendiga a Todos los que estan leyendo esto! Deseo que tengan un hermoso dia! Buscad a Dios mientras pueda ser hallado! Jesus es el camino y el unico camino y regresa pronto! Recuerda cuando te sientas que no eres amado... el mayor sacrificio se hizo por amor! EL SUICIDIO NUNCA ES LA RESPUESTA!
Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna.
S. Juan 3:16 RVR1960
La paga del pecado es muerte (infierno) pero Cristo pagó nuestra deuda en la cruz para nuestra salvacion! Debemos volvernos a Dios y apartarnos de nuestros caminos pecaminosos, confesar que Jesús es el Señor y creer con nuestro corazón que fue resucitado de entre los muertos por Dios, y debemos de ser bautizados en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo y vivir por Su palabra y mandamientos! Confia que Dios ayudara con el resto!
Busca a Dios, antes de que sea muy tarde! Hoy podria ser tu ultimo dia en la tierra!
A Dios Sea La Gloria!