User Manual - Bombing Brain Interactive

If I was smart enough to think ahead a day or two, I could make
new sets in a word processing program on my Mac, type them
out in big bold letters, and even print 10 copies to bring to the
gig. More often than not, however, set construction ended up
happening in the dressing room fifteen minutes before showtime.
Using my trusted old black Sharpie on scrap paper, cocktail
napkins, the backs of old sets—whatever I could find—I (or
whoever was on “set duty” that night) would scrawl out as many
copies of the sets as possible before we’d hit the stage. Often
we’d run out of napkins and have to share.
And then there was the issue of remembering all those lyrics.
Even though we spread the lead vocal duties over several of us,
each singer still had between 20 and 40 songs to remember. And
we were always adding and subtracting songs from the master
catalog. It’s safe to say that on more than one occasion, verse 2
became verse 1 a second time, words were made up on the spot
—you get the idea.
Setlists was designed to help that band I played in years ago. If
you perform live, and you need a way to manage a master
catalog of lyrics sheets, arrange songs into coherent sets, and/or
share those sets amongst all your band members with ease, then
you’re in luck. Setlists is exactly the tool you need.
One of the first things you’ll notice about Setlists is that it’s
designed to be used during a live performance (though you could
just as easily use it during a recording session or at rehearsals).
Because of this focus on performance, you can accomplish most
of what you need with a few taps and swipes and a minimal
amount of setup. Even getting lyrics to new songs into the app is
a breeze.
Setlists also conforms to your needs as a performer. Do you
improvise your sets from a giant master catalog rather than pre-
selecting the order of songs you perform? No problem. Setlists
can be used to show lyrics directly from the master Song
Catalog. Need to make a quick change to a set because one of
your singers has a cold and can’t hit the high notes tonight? Not
an issue. Take a song out of the set with a few taps. We make
these actions easy, so you can concentrate on your music and
your audience.
When the app is first launched, you arrive in the Set Chooser.
Here you will see all of the sets you create, with previews of each.
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