I have recently launched a video series on YouTube to help musicians simplify their live setup. After ten years of performing as a ”one man band” I am sharing my new workflow for managing a repertoire of 120+ songs using an iPad and Stage Traxx 3.
The series covers everything from customizing backing tracks to the hardware I use on stage.
If you want to modernize your performance or see how I handle my live shows, please check it out.
Please notice, i am just using my iPad for everything, no computer.
So, let’s start by finding a song on Youtube, i selected still got the blues with Gary Moore:
Then, select share and copy:
When you have copied the link from Youtube, it’s time to open the AI program to remove the leadsong and the guitar if you play the guitar solos yourself, please notice, you have to create an account and pay a small subscription fee to make it possible to utilize all functions from this wonderful program.
Create your account and pay a small subscription fee.
Now it’s time to upload the song to Stagetraxx, open the app and press the + sign
Select ”from local files or cloud”, mark the file and then press open
B
The file will now be downloaded to Stagetraxx.
So now you have your first song in the library, next step, press i on the right side of the song in order to edit the title, add lyrics, perhaps you need to pitch the song from Am to Gm, you will have a lot of options.
As you can see below, i edited the title and added the artist, now it’s time to add the lyrics
Search for your song and open the chords/lyrics, the press the pencil
Mark all the text and press copy
Go back to Stagetraxx and copy the lyrics into the editor, then press save
press ”done” on the next screen, now everything is ready.
Select the song from the playlist and press not just the green arrow, press on the waweform in order to get both the song and the lyrics;
You can adjust the ”scroll speed” if it’s too slow or fast, easy to do even when you are playing/singing.
If you would like to remove the guitar as well, just open X-pro again, select the song from your laptop/ipad (not from youtube), the version that you previously downloaded, and select ”remove guitar”. Then you can dowload a new version to and upload it to Stagetraxx.
Happy playing🎸🎸🤓
Here are some amazing Youtube clips /instructions on how to use Stagetraxx 3 from Scott Uhl:
