The five-minute setlist

The short answer: build your setlist in a tool that already knows your songs. BandVolt’s setlist builder pulls from your band’s library - BPM, key, and length included - lets each setlist use any version of a song (album cut, live arrangement, or unreleased), links the set to the gig on the calendar, and doubles as an on-stage playback view. It is free on the Basic tier.

Most setlists start as a back-of-the-napkin and end as a screenshot of a Google Doc taped to a monitor.

There is a faster way that also doubles as a stage tool.

Drag, drop, done

Open the setlist builder. Pull songs in from the band library. Reorder them. The set is built - and every song already has its BPM, key, and length attached because that data lives on the song itself.

No retyping. No “wait, what key are we in for this one?” five minutes before doors.

The version you actually play

Every song in BandVolt keeps its full version history - and each setlist can point at whichever version you choose. Play the album cut in one set, the extended live arrangement in another, the abridged edit when the support slot gets cut to twenty minutes.

Unreleased songs go straight in too. That is where a streaming playlist gives up: it can only hold what has been released, in the released form. Your rehearsal setlist can hold the set you are actually going to play.

Linked to the gig

Setlists attach to events on the shared calendar. The Friday show at the King’s Head has its own setlist. The Saturday show has another. Nobody is asking in the chat the morning of which set you are playing.

Playback mode for stage

The same setlist runs as a playback view: each song, in order, with BPM and key on screen. Click play to cue the click. The whole band is on the same beat - literally.

One source of truth

When the support slot gets bumped to 30 minutes, you edit the setlist once. Everyone sees the change. No new screenshot. No taped-up update.

Build your next setlist in five minutes.