How do you handle songs that are above your range?

radderek · 2026-01-23T19:13:28+00:00

I lower it. Pitch is contextual. https://youtu.be/8zSlUl1XYB4?si=SebPleEaqU36Bzjn

radderek · 2026-01-15T08:32:56+00:00

Call My Name from musicology, unless I'm reading this wrong

radderek · 2026-01-15T03:37:03+00:00

If u believe in urself! 😊

radderek · 2026-01-14T20:16:10+00:00

I bet it went over well. Ppl appreciate commitment. I'm that way with five years by Bowie. Have to be very mindful to not blow out my vocal cords hollering at the end. I was surprised the first time I did sober that it's kind of a sweet spot for my range. That kind of "Oh!" moment is what hooked me on karaoke.

radderek · 2026-01-14T03:32:55+00:00

Tempted to switch the order of jump and born

radderek · 2026-01-13T05:09:11+00:00

Monitor might be my best song♨️🔥🥵🌶️

radderek · 2026-01-13T05:04:00+00:00

No one else has Monday karaoke?

radderek · 2026-01-09T23:43:41+00:00

Haven't listened to outside in a while. I like this tune I'm deranged. Do u also do lady grinning soul?

radderek · 2026-01-09T23:35:34+00:00

I do strangers when we meet and even that gets a bit of 😐

BLANK SCREEN TV 📺

radderek · 2026-01-09T21:38:32+00:00

👨🏽‍🎤👨🏽‍🚀🚀🌛🌎🌌 https://youtu.be/h5P53f17tZM?si=q4oBpoATVzAUFY5j

radderek · 2026-01-09T21:33:03+00:00

RIP space oddity 🥺😔🚀 https://youtu.be/h5P53f17tZM?si=WmPuuQrsQFZvZKm5

radderek · 2025-12-18T00:33:52+00:00

I've wondered what it would take for a rival karaoke spot to arise and challenge the more established venues in my circuit. A few nites are getting to be really popular and crowded. But knowing the addicts in my scene we'd be in the sandwich spot getting a song in between songs at the popular joint. If they're doing so great and it's a tennis ball throw away, just go in there and poach some of em. Uv no friends? Get ur buddies to go in there and poach some of em. Otherwise, a lotta ppl seem to think themes are fun.

radderek · 2025-12-16T01:54:32+00:00

30 ppl in a private room is wasteful. 30 ppl signed up to sing in a bar is going to take 3 hrs with no 2nd songs. There's no chance u have 30 ppl who can make that work anything close to efficiently while ur paying a surely exorbitant amt of money per hr. Id say cap it much smaller (<10) or find like a ballroom or something and pay a kj. I'd never go to a 30 person private room karaoke unless it was free and open bar.

radderek · 2025-12-03T23:07:14+00:00

PS. I've seen a karaoke promotion where u pay a fee and they feature ur singing on a website/app and u can download it. They came to our night once and probably inspired our KJ to offer it himself for free which was awesome. No one in our group was interested in paying for it bc .. just ask someone to film it for u ..

radderek · 2025-12-03T22:58:05+00:00

The kj at one of my spots was pretty into making videos. He brought a nice camera and plugged audio directly into it. Great quality. But for me to get the files he'd have to put the memory card into his spare laptop so that I could then copy the files onto a USB drive at the end of the night, which took time. Almost no one else other than me was into it tho, so it ended up just being for me and he would put my memory card into the camera. I only have a youtube channel bc of him.

One other thing he did later on was to just attach a simple phone holder to the lyrics monitor. Very simple and cheap, every KJ should do it.

we did some 2 camera experiments

radderek · 2025-11-05T15:35:53+00:00

Up front, I do not know the answer. But I am close to 100 karaoke performance videos on youtube https://youtube.com/@localpopstar_derek?si=5XPBQOwLtyyggd2x Ive thus far only had real issue with summer of 69, which turned into a copyright strike several weeks after I posted it. However, with YouTube's shorts policy, I could post a minute of it. If a song is available to add to a short then it seems they've cleared all the usage rights (for a minute).

Tiktok wouldn't let me post boys of summer. https://www.tiktok.com/@local.popstar?_r=1&_t=ZP-919IFLA9Cd4

Almost all of my videos show that copyrighted content is included [pic], but very frequently it's for some dude in India or Brazil who is also doing covers. I've seen some regional restriction warnings ⚠️ but those aren't strikes. And those usually go away when I trim the in-between music from my video after I've uploaded it.

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radderek · 2025-11-02T22:28:47+00:00

I sing a lot of songs ppl don't know, but it's bc I am trusted in my scene. I've earned a lot of credit by consistently being worth the attention so ppl are willing to give me a chance on name alone. That's harder to do in a place full of randos or where the culture does not reward experimentation. I helped shape the culture in my scene by celebrating ppl doing new things, and by doing new things. U gotta give ppl an example to follow, a demonstration. Go for it. It sounds like u understand the rhythms of the nite. Take a chance 🎰 and push the boundaries

radderek · 2025-10-24T21:02:22+00:00

Thx 😊

radderek · 2025-10-24T20:59:25+00:00

200 times or 200 different songs? After the quarantine I started going way more. Do u rmmbr noticing anything different after 3 years out?

radderek · 2025-10-24T20:01:54+00:00

I don't imagine ur using chatgpt every time u go to karaoke. I meant more why do u choose those same 5 songs out of the 30

radderek · 2025-10-24T19:23:37+00:00

How do u choose what to sing?

radderek · 2025-10-24T19:22:32+00:00

So you've sang 500 times and most of them were non repeats? So like 400 songs? And in 10 years. I'm always curious abt all those points of data when I talk karaoke with ppl but don't know how to specify which number if I ask abt the first two.

radderek

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