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Notes on playing gigs from a phone
The gigbrain blog is short, practical notes for musicians who play from a phone or tablet: setlists, keys, chord sheets and how gigbrain works.
Playing live
Setlists and sheets that hold up on a dark stage.
How to build a setlist that keeps the room with you
A working method for ordering 25 songs so the room stays with you: open strong, plan the dip, end on the one they came for.
A chord sheet you can read on a dark stage
Formatting habits that make a chord sheet readable from a music stand: chords above words, labelled sections, short lines, and notes where you need them.
Keys and chord sheets
Picking a key, capo or transpose, and writing sheets you can read.
Capo or transpose: picking a key you can sing
When to move the capo and when to rewrite the chords, how to find your key in five minutes, and what each choice does to the sound.
How gigbrain works
What happens under the hood, and how to bring your songs in.
How gigbrain scrolls a chord sheet in time with the recording
What happens between pasting a sheet and pressing play: song identification, tempo and length lookups, timed lyrics, and what to do when a song has none.
Moving your Ultimate Guitar playlists into gigbrain
A step by step guide to importing your Ultimate Guitar playlists as setlists, what gets copied, and what to check afterwards.