which side of the stage do your prefer?
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which side of the stage do your prefer?
Which side of the stage do you like to set-up on? Seems like stage right (off of the drummer's right shoulder) is a good place with a line of sight (past your bar) to the front person at center stage.
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Exactly!Jerry Overstreet wrote:I voted stage right. I like the outside...I can put all my rack gear to my right along with my other instruments. More convenient and less space used for me.
I'll take the current bass player on my immediate left over the lead guitar any day.
I prefer being next to the bass and as far as possible from any (and all) guitars. I also agree that stage right provides the better line-of-sight for onstage communication.
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I'm kinda partial to stage right, especially when playing with only 2 or 3 other people onstage. In a larger group, I still prefer stage right, but closer to the front of the stage so I can see the rhythm guitar player's hands to see what chord he/she is playing. I am so danged old that I forget a lot when to look at pretty girls...aren't they out on the dance floor somewhere?
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If I'm playing steel only in someone else's band it doesn't matter to me. When I'm playing with my band (The Long & Short of It) I like to take stage left as I set up my steel and then a Dobro on a stand to the left of that and play my guitar behind that. This gives the singer (my wife) more room as the Dobro and guitar necks aren't sticking into her area........JH in Va.
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I must be lucky, I've gotten to work with some awesome guitarists and have never minded being next to one. Better to trade licks with. We angle our amps slightly away from each other. My reason for being away from the bass is that I'm sitting down and the bass amp is on the floor. This often causes me not to hear my low notes as they get drowned out by the more pervasive bass notes. I like to hear and account for each and every note.
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i prefer outside front right where no one can walk on my chords...but have to use left side in one band to save my ears and sanity fron the lead ice pick player.
which is too bad...lots of guitarists i've played with are fantastic, but standing above their floored amp they don't get the piercing volume that i do at my ear level.
which is too bad...lots of guitarists i've played with are fantastic, but standing above their floored amp they don't get the piercing volume that i do at my ear level.
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Set up on stage:
Back in the stone age before sound men i always sit next to the guitar player as we twined a lot.Also liked to sit near the drummer as we phrased together.This was back when musicians knew how to adjust thier volume.I realize i am telling my age.
I know what it is like today as i played weekends for a few years after retiring from music full time.Quit some time back as it got to where the old joke about how to tell who was the band leader became a realility.The one with the most powerful amp not counting the drummer.
I know what it is like today as i played weekends for a few years after retiring from music full time.Quit some time back as it got to where the old joke about how to tell who was the band leader became a realility.The one with the most powerful amp not counting the drummer.
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I may have posted something like this before. I worked in a couple of bands where we all put our amps in front of us in a semicyrcle including the bass amp. Musicly these were the best bands I worked with. Too much vol and you took your own head off. Not enough vol and you angle your amp away from you and turn it up a bit. You can hear your technique at work Immediately your pic touches the string.This helps greatly with intonation as well as vol.
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Being that I play multiple instruments and do so quite often when playing on stage, I prefer the left side (house right). When playing bass, I tend to turn and face the band more than towards the audience. Some times our female vocalist shares my bass duties when I get behind the steel, She slowly works her way to the right (house left) and usually tangles cords with our lead guitarist, who likes to run around the stage and put on his own show. That's when I prefer sitting well off to the left or right to stay out of the fracas.
When I know that I am going to be playing steel only during a gig, I push to setup on the left (house right). Most of the time our lead guitarist leads into the sets so I pick up on his chords visually. I also angle my steel towards the band so I can keep an eye on what everyone else is doing without having to turn my head too much.
When I know that I am going to be playing steel only during a gig, I push to setup on the left (house right). Most of the time our lead guitarist leads into the sets so I pick up on his chords visually. I also angle my steel towards the band so I can keep an eye on what everyone else is doing without having to turn my head too much.
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I didn't vote as it doesn't matter to me as neither or "all of the above" was not an option.
Generally, I like to be close to the lead guitar player for better coordination between us, but that's the only preference.
I've worked with bands where I was on the left side of the singer and stage and bands where I was on the right side of the singer and stage.
A lot of times, the size of the stage dictates where the steel and drums set up. The last 7 winters doing the "RV Park Tours" there are stages of varying size (and places where there isn't any stage) - you just adapt to whatever is there.
Generally, I like to be close to the lead guitar player for better coordination between us, but that's the only preference.
I've worked with bands where I was on the left side of the singer and stage and bands where I was on the right side of the singer and stage.
A lot of times, the size of the stage dictates where the steel and drums set up. The last 7 winters doing the "RV Park Tours" there are stages of varying size (and places where there isn't any stage) - you just adapt to whatever is there.