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It’s Song #4, But Moment #3

Recently, I noticed an artist had very nicely blogged about what she learned at a workshop I taught a few years ago. She was complimentary about the set list I’d taught, and proceeded to tell everyone about it – problem was, it wasn’t what I’d taught.

I’m glad she was appreciative of my session, but it made me realize that a workshop or two and a session about how to develop your set list won’t necessarily teach artists and bands all there is to know about it!

In fact, a couple of the things this particular artist mentioned were not right at all. For instance, her “song #3” is actually what I call “moment #3″ which is really “song #4.” Let me explain…

It’s important to create “moments” for your live show. In fact, it’s one of the reasons people go to your concerts. After all, they could have just stayed home and listened to some music on their stereo system. But they chose to see you live; and live, they want to experience moments!

So over the years, I’ve developed a graph to help artists understand the concept of 1) learning what moments they need to bring their audiences, 2) how to create those moments, and 3) (very important!) what order to bring the moments. … Read More, Watch, Comment – Backstage Pass Required