I think this doesn’t feel like quite the right classifier. I do think the people giving said advice have worked with noncentral singers, and, like, I do meanwhile think most of the advice is good, just, pointed at a less important part of the problem.
I think the folk-singer style advice has mapped roughly to what I’d expect from camp counselors.
Some advice from more of a religious-tradition have been:
Build up a repertoire of songs that people know
Have the instrumentation play the melody in an intro to the song before you get going, to get people the gist of the song
(in some cases) “Have sheet music.”
I was resistant to #2 for awhile because my association of this was catholic mass where a pipe organ plays the melody in a way that feels… kinda boring/lame to me? But, recently, while experimenting with the Suno music AI make covers of Solstice songs, I noticed it inserting melodies that felt like a good mix of “musically interesting” and “probably helpful”, and I’ve felt better about it.
I think this doesn’t feel like quite the right classifier. I do think the people giving said advice have worked with noncentral singers, and, like, I do meanwhile think most of the advice is good, just, pointed at a less important part of the problem.
I think the folk-singer style advice has mapped roughly to what I’d expect from camp counselors.
Some advice from more of a religious-tradition have been:
Build up a repertoire of songs that people know
Have the instrumentation play the melody in an intro to the song before you get going, to get people the gist of the song
(in some cases) “Have sheet music.”
I was resistant to #2 for awhile because my association of this was catholic mass where a pipe organ plays the melody in a way that feels… kinda boring/lame to me? But, recently, while experimenting with the Suno music AI make covers of Solstice songs, I noticed it inserting melodies that felt like a good mix of “musically interesting” and “probably helpful”, and I’ve felt better about it.