Live Band Karaoke! - karaoke but backed by a live band. This document is a way to sign up to participate.

You are welcome to sign up in any open box. Please don't erase someone else's name and put your own in! Also please be thoughtful about not signing up for too many slots, especially singing slots (no more than 2 singing slots per person, please!).

We'll have time to do ~30 songs all told, and so ideally that means we'll have everything figured out ahead of time. It's important to know who's playing what instruments ahead of time particularly so people can get a chance to go over the song on their own (in the past when we've done this, there hasn't been any rehearsal beforehand the day of the event).

One difference between this and machine karaoke is that we need to make charts for the band for each song. Some of the songs on this list already have charts, others we might only make a chart for if it seems like a band is going to come together to play it. You can add songs to this list that you don't see here, but keep in mind it will need a chart as well as players to actually happen. Grabbing the chords off a guitar tab site is a dicey proposition, they're often lacking information or have wrong information. We like a high information, concise, clear chart! We'll have iPads to read the charts off of.

Songs don't have to happen at karaoke exactly in their original form. If you want to do something in a slower tempo or different key etc, you can make a note of it. Making a whole new arrangement that's different from the recorded version is hard to do sans rehearsal and not recommended. We'll defer to the singer of the song for basic decisions, but keep in mind that a band might not be able to change what key the song is in on the fly. Planning ahead is best!