Hey everyone I live just outside a large city, and am thinking of going busking, to make some money. The problem is i can't remember all of the songs I know off the top of my head so i was wondering what would be a good songbook to bring with me. I just want something with the lyrics and chords, not too complicated. If anyone has any suggestions or advice for me please pass on what you think!
Special K
Get a Fake book there's like 1200 editions.
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Gosh, I haven't done that in 25 years! Sure brings back memories....
Two things:
1) You don't need to know much. Nobody hangs out to listen for half an hour, so if you can remember just 3-5 tunes, you can just keep doing them. I used to play in train stations a lot, and your crowd changes every 10 minutes or so as the next train arrives.
2) When I did it (in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco) laws varied. At the time, it was illegal to busk in Chicago without a permit... and I never really got around to getting one. I don't know if it was technically illegal in NY, but I got rousted out of Washington Square once or twice. SF was ok with it, and I never had trouble there. So stay very, very portable if it's appropriate :)
Guitar teacher offering lessons in Plainfield IL
Where's the term come from? Anyone have any idea?
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- HST
From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=busking
1 entry found for busking.
busk P Pronunciation Key (bsk)
intr.v. busked, busk·ing, busks
To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.
[Earlier, to be an itinerant performer, probably from busk, to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate, perhaps from obsolete French busquer, to prowl, from Italian buscare, to prowl,, or Spanish buscar, to seek from Old Spanish boscar.]
busker n.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
I remember a massive thread on busking. "To busk or not to busk" I think was what it was called. Maybe it wasn't so massive...Time is making me exaggerate it possibly.
