From repertoire to setlist, rehearsal flow to showtime — practical notes for bands and news from BandUp.
In most cover bands, song picks start in the group chat and die there. Here is how to turn choosing your repertoire from an endless debate into an actual decision, with criteria, suggestions, voting and vetoes.
Dull tone, tuning that drifts, discolored strings. How to tell when your strings are done, when to restring before a gig and how to pick a gauge.
Mixing balances the tracks inside a song, mastering gets the finished song ready for release. Here's the difference, the basic steps at home and when to hand it off.
From a hummed voice memo to a finished demo: catching ideas, song structure, chord progressions, melody, lyrics and actually finishing, step by step.
Which capo fret gives you which key, how to put a capo on properly, why it knocks you out of tune, and what to tell the bass player. Chart included.
Scheduling, venue contact, setlists, social media, money and gear. How to share the non-musical work in a band, and how to stop one person from ending up doing all of it.
From learning parts to writing lyrics, mixing and band admin: where AI actually helps musicians, where it falls short, and what we know about copyright.
What BPM means, how to find a song's tempo, the metronome methods that actually help, and how to rehearse with a click as a band.
A tech rider tells the venue what your band needs on stage before you arrive. What goes in it, how to keep it short for small venues, and a sample input list.
