How many songs should a musician know how to play?
Simply put, as many as one wants to learn to play, within your ability. The purpose of learning to play an instrument is to eventually be good enough to play the music that you hear and want to play, especially the music in your head, your own music. If you’re playing in a bar band for example you need to learn enough to fill the required timeline without much repetition. But that’s other people’s music. You learn a lot that way. But by playing your own compositions, no matter how simple or basic, and developing your own musical skills, you’ll improve as a musician. Hopefully, as you progress, your own compositions will become more complex and you’ll need to improve as a musician in order to play what you hear. Just when you reach a certain level of playing and feel content, your own music becomes more complex and you have to continue learning and improving in order to play your own or anyone else’s. That’s the incentive for practice. That's the circle of progress.
Is a musical counted as a play?
Ultimately, they should be considered the same thing. While you may see some musicals touted as "musical comedies," some are also called "musical plays." With the rise of more multi-media and movement work permeating in plays (including the major success The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time), the line of dynamic movement, music, and design between the straight play and musical is seen as blurred. We are not only regulated to living room dramas with the spoken play, nor is the spoken play limited to only being spoken.Perhaps different words should be used as we move forward to erode remaining stigma between them. That might be an interesting question to raise in your research.
Can someone please list some Broadway Musical (Male) Songs?
Music of the Night- Phantom of the Opera Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes- The Gondoliers One Song (Glory)- Rent The Prince of Humbug- Barnum Why God Why- Miss Saigon Any Dream Will Do- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Havela- Fiddler on the Roof Hope those help. My personal favorites would be Music of the Night and Havela, but that's just me.
What's the average amount of songs in a musical?
Most musicals have at least 20 songs. Some have a lot more and some have a little less. But i think the average would land at around 20. However, the number of songs used has a lot to do with the story. You need to write as many songs as it takes to tell the full and complete story. For instance the musical, les miserables, has almost 40 song (counting reprises) but that musical also tells the story of an over a thousand page book. The musical wicked tells a much simpler story and lands at about 25 songs. I would also keep in mind that you want your musical to be at least 2 hours and you dont want it to exceed 3. You want the audience to feel like it got its money worth but you dont want it so long that people are ready to leave at intermission.
Why do some people play their music so loudly? Don't they realize that they're imposing their tastes on other people (who may not like it)?
I would argue that this question belongs under psychology, because that’s pretty much what this comes down to.Many people have either substandard or nonexistent situational awareness, and no, they don’t realize that they’re imposing their tastes on other people. I would say this is true for the majority of loud-music offenders. They’re kind of apathetic, and don’t fully consider the effects of their music. They might blast it because they’re hard of hearing, they consider their particular music taste to be a status symbol of sorts, they just plain like the song, or maybe even because they think others enjoy it (especially true of those who blast pop music and Christmas carols). Most of these people would probably turn down their music if confronted, but some of them are so lacking in empathy, they will not care what you think at all and believe, narcissistically, that their desire overrides yours.That brings me to the other sizable category of loud-music offenders: the one that wants to.. offend. They may have a grudge against society, or a statement to make, or want to show off their loud speakers, or want to shock people. In some cases it may be perfectly understandable if you got to know them, maybe even justified, but of course they still need to learn to be considerate members of society that don’t go out of their way to alienate themselves.It’s never going to happen, but one can dream. In the mean time, if someone’s playing their music too loud, tell them it bothers you! They’ll probably turn it down. If not.. well.. you can give ’em a pair of headphones if they don’t have one, call the police, or.. move :P
Musicians: How many songs do you think you'd need to perform to fill out a two-hour gig?
It depends on your ability to talk to a crowd. If you can introduce a song well with something that puts it into context and interests the audience you're more likely to want to space 15 songs out into two hours with some good spoken anecdotes and introductions spread throughout. (Scottish comic legend Billy Connolly started as a serious folk musicians but his introductions got longer and funnier as his career progressed. He became known for his spoken sections and the songs became the low point of his act so he dumped them and became a stand up)If you're not comfortable talking to the crowd (or you don't think you're interesting enough) you probably need to play 20+ songs to fill in two hours. But make sure you vary them and mix up the setlist with a few different styles. Twenty heartfelt ballads in a row might tax the audience's patience.
How to play guitar on any song spontaneously ? what is the bassics needed, is it the chord cycle ? HELP?
The answerer above me is correct. There are many many many chords, octaves, keys etc and many many songs as well with huge variation in the way they sound (compare Dusty Springfield to Led Zeppelin for example!). If you have a good ear for music, then perhaps you can listen to a song and figure out the key, chords etc but if, like me, you are not blessed with that particular talent, you have to find the music which is available from shops that sell musical instruments and also online.
How many songs should a musician be able to perform “flawlessly” live at “any time” to be considered "good" or "competent"?
One. If you can play a song flawlessly, you are good, and you are competent. Except: remember that “flaws” include mindless note-playing, making all the touch and timing and accuracy requirements but failing to infuse the music with the life that is in you, with exciting interpretation, boldness of thought, kindness, love, fervor, anger, and all the other things that go into making music good. The worst flaw of all in much piano playing is to make it boring. But you only need one good one to be good.And if you can do that one, you can do as many as you wish, because you will be a musician (you are not a musician if you do not play in a compelling fashion, and it really doesn’t matter that much if you play all the notes “right.” Professional musicians don’t. And people who count the notes to make sure they played all of them (nobody does that, not even critics!) really don’t have anything to do with music at all.
How many songs does the average radio station play a day?
I would say 175.