Sometimes it is good to know who is playing which instrument in which song.
To solve these and other problems, you can
Below, we'll show you how it works:
To make it easier to assign instruments to songs later on, the first step is to assign all instruments played by one band member to that band member.
This can either be done by an admin of the band by clicking on the “Edit” button in the bandmates overview:
It can also be done by every band member themselves via the following navigation entry:
As admin or band member you will be taken to the screen where you can select
By simply clicking on a group and/or the instruments, you can mark them as selected and save them using the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.
Each bandmates' instrument group is displayed in various places where it is not the actual instrument that may be of interest, but rather the instrument type.
Only the instrument group of the main instrument should be specified here (if there are several main instruments, of course, you may select several groups).
Important:
In setlists only the instruments, not the instrument groups, can be displayed for optimization!
For the display of lead vocals in setlists the instrument “Lead Vocals” must be selected, not the instrument group.
The instruments are displayed grouped by instrument groups.
If an instrument is missing, feel free to send us an e-mail!
In the second step, you can assign the selected instruments to the songs for each band member.
This can be done by an admin using the corresponding button in the band member overview:
Or as well by each band member themselves:
After clicking on the button or navigation entry, you will be taken to the screen where you can assign instruments to the songs.
Only instruments assigned to the respective band member are shown here.
You can “activate” and deactivate the instruments for this song with just a click.
And here too, of course, please click the “Save” button at the very end so that the assignments are actually saved. :)
You will also see the instruments for a song in the song itself and can jump from there to the according instrument assignment of that bandmate.
In the setlist view, you can now display the band members' instruments and use them for optimization:
In the filter area, you can turn on/off individual bandmates' instruments to be able to better focus on specific instruments.
Band members who either did not specify any instruments or have assigned the same instruments throughout the setlist are not displayed in the instrument list and cannot be filtered.
If 'Lead Vocals' is selected as instrument for a band member in a song, this information will be displayed in the setlist view and also in the setlist download as additional information/column:
There is no need to select an instrument or an instrument group for each and every band member, nor does an instrument assignment have to be made for songs. This only may be helpful for bandmates with lots of changing instruments.
In a future version of BANDZONE, it will also be possible to assign instruments directly in the song. If you want to be informed about such changes, feel free to subscribe to our newsletter.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please send an email to support@band.zone.