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Keep the nonsingers happy.   They will be the make or break deciders.

The crowd determines the genre they detemine the pace they dtermine whether fill music or not. A good host will aquire with experience how to read a crowd and shift formats in a second..

It is energy Next time you nail a song and whether they clap or or if they are energized and talking louder than normal then you gave them an energy and the crowd unkowingly feeds that energy back. This is the one thing that most hosts or singers do not understand.. It doesnt take a star or super talent to do it.. It comes from within.. Learn to let it out honestly and with the heart and with enthusiasm.. A good host can take an average system selection and entertain the crowd. A drunk with a guitar has been doing it for years Why should it take 10k in equipt and such ?

Everybody wants to go down the interstate 90 mph and dont even know how to put the harness on the team. It is the abilty of basics and experience to apply them and adapt to each situation..

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Hey people.  Just wanted to stop and say "hey".
I noticed that most kjs have mentioned "song slips" at some time or another here at KS. Are they really necessary? Is it the easiest way for most kjs?
The reason I bring this up is that I've noticed how the kj where I go to handles the song requests and rotation.
A notebook pad with each singer's name in subsequent order from the first singer is made up. The singer looks up the song in the books and tells the kj the song numbers. It's written beside the singer's name. It could be 1, 2, 3, 4 songs at once written down beside the singer's name. Then, as a singer comes up, that song number is crossed off, and the rotation just goes from top to bottom on the list.
New singers are placed at the bottom of the list, but are sometimes allowed to sing earlier depending on the time and how much is left, unless the singer just came in way too late, and the others are waiting to sing.
Does this make any sense to any of you?
I hear alot about "fair rotation", but what really determines that the rotation is fair?
I'm kinda stumped on that one.
I've seen the way a couple of kjs here in my hometown handle these "songslips", and it just looks way to complicated to me. What if they forget which stack the last slip was pulled from? Or is there more to it than that? If you have 30 singers, that's 30 stacks of slips to choose from.
Wouldn't it be easier to use a pad of paper like I mentioned?

PC, I like slips.   Even when I switch to computer I will still use slips and song books.    You don't have to write everything down all night.   They give you a slip and it goes into the rotation.    Make them do the writing.   All I have to worry about is making them sound good.   Not if I wrote the right song beside the right name.

Fair rotation to me is everyone gets 1 turn per round.  No one pays to get moved.  Nobody gets moved with an excuse they have to leave can they get up.  

I too use slips, along with a computer program I had designed that will show what order everyone is to the singers.

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I like using paper slips. I don't think it makes me a caveman yet.  LMAO

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Babs....you better edit this......there still are few of them around........those guys are really sensitive....and a little metro-sexual