BookLive lets you designate which musician sings each song and set the performance key for every song on a timeline. When enabled, a singer chip and a key chip appear beside each song in the Timeline tab, making your production sheet more informative and reducing back-and-forth with your musicians.
Before You Begin #
- Both features are disabled by default. You enable them once per group, and the setting applies to every performance in your group.
- Singer assignment requires at least one musician to be staffed on the performance before you can make an assignment.
- You must be a group leader or admin to change these settings.
Step 1: Enable Singer and Key Assignment #
- Open any performance and click the Timeline tab.
- In the Timeline settings panel (the gear or settings section within the tab), locate the two toggles:
- Assign singers to songs — marks which staffed musician sings each song. The assignment shows on the Production Sheet and on each musician’s performance view.
- Assign keys to songs — displays a key chip on every song in the timeline and lets you override the default key for this specific performance.
- Toggle either or both features on. The setting is saved immediately and applies group-wide.
Step 2: Assign a Singer to a Song #
Once Assign singers to songs is enabled, each song in the timeline shows a + singer button (or a purple 🎤 chip if a singer is already assigned).
- Click + singer next to the song you want to assign.
- The Assign Singer dialog opens, showing the song name and a dropdown of all musicians currently staffed on this performance.
- Each option shows the musician’s name and their role/specialty (for example, Jane Smith — Violin).
- If no musicians are staffed yet, the dialog will prompt you to add musicians first.
- Select the musician who will sing this song, then click Save.
The song row now displays a purple 🎤 [Name] chip. To change the singer, click the chip and select a different musician. To remove the assignment, open the dialog and clear the selection.
Step 3: Set a Performance Key for a Song #
Once Assign keys to songs is enabled, each song shows either a blue key chip (if the song has a default key set in your library) or a + key button.
- Click the key chip or + key next to the song.
- The Set Key dialog opens. If the song has a default key, it is shown for reference.
- Select a key from the dropdown — all standard major and minor keys are available (C, C#, Db … through Bm). To remove a per-performance override and revert to the song’s default key, clear the selection.
- Click Save.
A blue chip showing the selected key appears next to the song. If the chip reflects a per-performance override, it is displayed with a slightly different style to indicate the override. If you clear the override, the chip instead shows the song’s library default key (if one exists).
Where Singer and Key Information Appears #
- Timeline tab — chips are visible inline next to each song for quick reference.
- Production Sheet — singer name and key are included in the downloadable production sheet shared with your musicians.
- Musician performance view — musicians who log in can see the singer assignment and key for each song in their performance view.
Tips & Notes #
- Singer assignments are tied to a staffed seat, not a specific musician’s account. If you remove a musician from a seat, their singer assignments on that performance are automatically cleared.
- Key overrides are per-performance — changing the key on one performance never affects the song’s default key in your library or any other performance.
- You can enable one feature without the other. For example, enable keys but leave singer assignment off if your group does not track vocal assignments.
- Both settings are group-wide. Turning a feature off removes the chips from the UI for all performances, but the saved data (assignments and overrides) is preserved if you turn the feature back on.
