Music Basics
How to Find Your Vocal Range and Pick the Right Key
You can measure your vocal range with a keyboard in a few minutes. The real work is picking the song key from it and getting the whole band into that key.
From repertoire to setlist, rehearsal flow to showtime — practical notes for bands and news from BandUp.
You can measure your vocal range with a keyboard in a few minutes. The real work is picking the song key from it and getting the whole band into that key.
Chord symbols, guitar and keyboard diagrams, slash chords and chords over lyrics. What everyone in the band needs to know to read the same chart the same way.
Transposing means moving every note of a song up or down by the same amount. The semitone logic, how it works on guitar, keys, bass, horns and vocals, and what goes wrong when a whole band changes key.