In the old days

[ekurburski]

Back when i was playing organ in the clubs (40-50 years ago) I had a drum rail with 12 rhymes.  I used it for every song.  Had no problem picking a pattern for song.  Now I have access to thousands of styles and can't find the time to choose the correct one for a song.  A while back I saw a post by someone that mentioned he used only a few of the preset styles for everything.  Just wondering if some of you could give a list of which of the main styles you use for most of your tunes.  Would seem like it would help greatly in getting on with adding tunes.

Also in the old days I figured it took about 10-12 tunes to do a set (40 minutes).  How many tunes do you figure you need for a hour show at a nursing home?

Earl

[DrakeM]

16 songs for a one hour performance.

I don't use any of the preset style as is. I tweak them all in order to do all my songs. Just find a close style and then start turning parts off to get it how you like. Learn to use registrations to set up your songs. Or learn to tweak the styles and save it as a NEW style, it is not that hard to learn to do and is a key part of using the power of your keyboard.

Regards
Drake

[ekurburski]

Thank you Drake. 
I guess I was just being lazy and trying for an easy way out.

[travlin-easy]

When I was working, I used a combination of preset styles and third-party styles. Earl, all of those styles are on the USB drive and the songs are in the music finder and registrations that I loaded into that keyboard.

Now, 10 to 12 songs for a one hour job means those would be really long songs. Keep in mind that most songs last less than 3 minutes, which puts the number at about 20 songs for that one hour job. Of course, this means you have to streamline your performances so there is very little dead time between songs, which in my case was just a second or two at most. Lots of dead time between songs usually translates into the loss of the audience's interest and participation.

Good luck,

Gary