Call and response.
Let me hear you say heyooooooo!!!!! Heyooooo!
Call and response easily takes the audience from not know the words to knowing the words (even if they don’t sing them back). Taking the song from (possibly) unfamiliar to familiar.
And the good thing is you don’t have to stand up there and teach the idea of call and response. It’s already in people’s brains. All you have to do is make it clear you’re doing a ‘call’.
You have to go first. I’ve never seen the audience do the call part, only the response.
Call and response is an invitation to participate in knowing the song. And if they know the song they’re more likely to like the song. And if they like the song they’re more likely to remember the song. And if they remember the song long after your show, you’ve performed a miracle.
p.s. If you’re going to ‘call’, make it a good one. Like Freddy.
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