Members Vito Corleone Posted July 2, 2014 Members Share Posted July 2, 2014 We added Happy back in March and it's been doing real well for us. The song is sooooo overplayed, but people still love it. It's actually kinda a fun song to play. We have 3 vocalists up front (1male, 2 female) and they nail the vocal parts. Did that one for the first time last weekend and it went over great. Those background vocals get TIRING though! And I got stuck with the middle harmony that starts on the Ab which is not a good note for me. A bit too high for my full voice and a bit too low for my falsetto. Gonna have to work on strengthening up for that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rocketking Posted July 2, 2014 Members Share Posted July 2, 2014 I consider Happy an old song as we're playing it since November. Best Day of My Life, Counting Stars, Rather Be go over pretty well. Next up are: Ain't It Fun, Am I Wrong and Addicted to You and some older rock classics like Are You Gonna Go My Way and Are You Gonna Be My Girl. Now that I look at them, it's a coincidence they're all starting with an A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dan88z Posted July 3, 2014 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2014 Did that one for the first time last weekend and it went over great. Those background vocals get TIRING though! And I got stuck with the middle harmony that starts on the Ab which is not a good note for me. A bit too high for my full voice and a bit too low for my falsetto. Gonna have to work on strengthening up for that one! Ah, I took the low part on that one! I hang around a middle C. Even in that range it gets tiring. Everybody in the band says the end choruses are twice as long as they need to be lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 3, 2014 Members Share Posted July 3, 2014 We cut the song short. (We cut most songs short....who needs all those choruses anyway? Just get on with the next one.) Yeah, the lower part --- which goes F-Eb-Eb-C, IIRC-- gets tiring too. The damn thing just goes on too long without a lot of time to breathe. I try to support the vocals by bringing up a vocal patch along with the EP during those parts, but I don't have an "EEEE" sound. I only have OOHs and AHHs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Opus Antics Posted July 3, 2014 Members Share Posted July 3, 2014 All Pharrell songs seem to go twice as long as they should Get Lucky. Happy. Come Get It Bae (or something like that). They're all fun and catchy, but midway through the song you're like, "shouldn't this be ending now?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 3, 2014 Members Share Posted July 3, 2014 Get Lucky is another one we do just a bit of in the course of a medley of stuff. Goes on way too long otherwise. Speaking of competing with DJs, I find that medleys and mashups work great. Our sets largely consist of a few long medleys that run 12-15 minutes each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hanjo Posted July 16, 2014 Members Share Posted July 16, 2014 Just rolled out Banditos by the Refreshments on Saturday. Kicking little song that fits our group nicely. Sorry to bring up a month old topic, I actually just posted for the first time in years because of this post lol this makes me so happy. I've played this in I think every band I've been in (even pulled it off in an outlaw country band ) We play it, it goes over super well some nights, and not as great others, but it's one of those songs that we are always "on" with and even if we are having an off set, it gets us in the groove (or at least that's how I justify keeping it in no matter what lol). For new songs we've played Hey Brother, Counting Stars, Everybody Talks...all seem to go over pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted July 17, 2014 Members Share Posted July 17, 2014 Get Lucky is another one we do just a bit of in the course of a medley of stuff. Goes on way too long otherwise. Speaking of competing with DJs, I find that medleys and mashups work great. Our sets largely consist of a few long medleys that run 12-15 minutes each. In the last band I was in that ran for 10 years it took me about half that time to convince some of the guys that we should be doing medleys. when we started ostrich hat we were doing medleys right from the start. even if they are just 2-3 songs together it works better. Get Lucky we do 2 verses 2 choruses then go into a bit of What Is Love by Haddaway. our medley looks like this: Get Lucky What Is Love December 63 Moves Like Jagger What Makes You Beautiful its around 15 minutes long and works well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 17, 2014 Members Share Posted July 17, 2014 In the last band I was in that ran for 10 years it took me about half that time to convince some of the guys that we should be doing medleys. when we started ostrich hat we were doing medleys right from the start. even if they are just 2-3 songs together it works better. Get Lucky we do 2 verses 2 choruses then go into a bit of What Is Love by Haddaway. our medley looks like this: Get Lucky What Is Love December 63 Moves Like Jagger What Makes You Beautiful its around 15 minutes long and works well. That's a really good medley. WIL is a song we messed with a bit, but it was one that ended up getting dropped before we fully worked it up (I hate it when that happens) and I've always wanted to revive it. December 1963 and WMYB are both songs I've always know would kill for the crowds we play for, but there's always been other songs that had higher priority. One of these days though! We tacked Get Lucky onto the end of a medley that consists of our "Stayin' Alive/Another Brick In The Wall" mashup, into "Rapper's Delight" into "Good Times". It was an obvious choice since the whole Nile Rodgers deal on Get Lucky is essentially a re-write of Good Times. And GT often sagged for us just a bit, putting GL at the end of it not only re-energizes the medley, but helps to have it all make more sense to the audience I think. But I think I might start messing around with WIL, December and WMYB and see what we can do with those three as a medley. Great songs all, but again, nothing there I want to spend more than a couple of minutes doing by themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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