Bandstand

Bandstand is where your band keeps everything, together. Your charts, your setlists, your rehearsals and the songs you're voting on, in one shared place online. Everyone in the band sees the same thing on their phone, tablet or laptop, and a change anyone makes reaches everyone at once.

It isn't a chord site or a song library. Bandstand starts empty and holds your band's own charts, written the way you play them, by the people who play them.

ONE BOOK, THE WHOLE BAND
• Every member has the band's charts, setlists and schedule on every device, always the latest.
• Fix a chord at rehearsal and everyone has the fix before the next song. If a bandmate changes a chart mid-gig, it shows up on your stand.
• Every version of every chart is kept, with who changed what and when, so nothing is ever lost.
• Recent changes shows what the band has been doing, and notifications tell you when it matters to you.
• Every song says where it is: Not started, Learning, Rehearsing or Gig-ready. New marks a song whose first rehearsal is coming up, so the band knows to give it time.

CHARTS EVERYONE CAN READ
• Chords sit right over the word you sing them on. Transpose a song to your key and it stays there on your devices.
• Harmonies in each singer's color, right in the words. Pick your part and your lines light up.
• Horn lines and riffs in notation, guitar and bass tab, and a tap on any chord shows its notes and fingerings.
• Every section is written out in full. Nobody flips back to "same as verse 1".
• Your own cues (notes, pictures, riffs) pinned to any spot on a chart, seen only by you.
• Keep sheet music, PDFs and pictures with each song, printed with its chart when you like.

SETLISTS AND GIGS
• Build the gig set by set, with breaks, timings, keys and notes. Everyone sees the running order the moment it changes.
• Each gig and rehearsal has its place on the map and goes in your calendar in a tap.
• Performance mode shows the whole set, full screen, with page turns by tap or Bluetooth pedal: chords and words, or the words alone on stage. The whole book stays on your device, so a gig with one bar or none still works.

REHEARSALS WITHOUT THE GROUP TEXT
• Everyone marks the days they can make and the ones they can't, and Bandstand finds the days the whole band is free.
• Set a rehearsal and everyone hears about it. Repeat it every week or every other week in a tap.

LEARN IT FROM THE RECORDING
• Record a take at rehearsal, or keep reference recordings with each song. Play them right on the chart, slowed to 0.75× or 0.5× without changing the pitch, or round and round.

COUNT IT IN
• Give a song its tempo (or tap it in) and the chart and performance mode have a metronome, the first beat of the bar higher, a light on every beat.
• One tap plays the starting pitch, in the key you're playing it in.

DECIDE TOGETHER
• Anyone can propose a song and the band votes; when enough vote for it, it joins the book.
• Admins, members, and read-only access for anyone who should only look. Up to 25 people per band, and you can be in several bands.

BRING YOUR BOOK WITH YOU
• Paste a chart or the words from anywhere, or share the page to Bandstand from your browser: it's made into a chart, sections and all, with the song's tempo, length and key. Share a song you already have, or its page on a BPM site, and tick what to update.
• Import from OnSong backups (with your sets), ChordPro, Google Docs and spreadsheets.
• Export the whole band in one file whenever you like.

CLAUDE AND CHATGPT CAN HELP
• Connect your AI assistant and ask it to write out a chart, fix a chord or build Friday's set. It works as you, and every change shows in the band's activity.

Works on Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad, and in any web browser. Start a band free for 30 days; after that, one person's subscription covers the whole band, up to 25 people, never a charge per player.

Bandstand never shows ads and never sells your data. Privacy: bandstand.info/privacy

Recent changes:
• Sheet music on stage: a song's sheet music and pictures are listed under its title in Perform; tap one to open it full screen.
Anything confusing? hello@bandstand.info