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I play a lot at "curated" singer-songwriter events, house concerts and such, and study this when the other performers are up there. The audience is usually hitting the mental "next" button before the performer is even halfway through a song. For various reasons. Also, I play bass in a trio with a very traditional "tuning-and-explaining" folk singer. It's a paying gig and he's really good, but he's always surprised that he makes a 13-song set list and we only manage to do 8. And he's not much interested in having the conversation about why that is.
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Short attention spans not withstanding
there is this observation
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Yes!
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I’m not a working musician, just a music lover. I am glad to see a trend back toward the side of shorter songs. It seemed like most songs back in my youth were somewhere between two to four minutes. A four minute song seemed long back then.
Long intros, too many short phrases repeating over and over, an outro (is that a word?), too often doesn’t contribute much of anything to a song for me personally. But there are definitely well conceived long songs, I think. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a brilliantly crafted tale of nearly six minutes. Country today seems to follow more of a pop type format, albeit with more guitar and overt twang. Maybe the growth of the Country genre has a lot to do with more guitar, less piano?? |