When choosing the order with my duet, we had a few more considerations to...uh..consider. We are both writers, singers and guitar players and we did not awnt either of to be The Front Person. This is how we worked it:

1. a fast paced fun song with each of us singing equally

2. a more moderate, more "crafted" song showing off one of us more than the other

3. Same as 2, but with the other one more in the spotlight

4. Somthing Funny

5. Not as important...maybe a new song

6. THE ONE THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEBER THAT WILL haunt THEM. I'm not saying your best written song...or even your strongest...but, that one that keeps you up sometimes....not necessarily sad...but powerful.

7. Something to bring them down from the last high, moderate, a little quirky.

8. sweet and sour, a tearjerker

9. Something moderate and well written, lyrically stable, solid melody, something that they will remember the next time they hear it, especilly certain lines that might come to mind later and hopefully they will consider them witty but deep.

10. Leave them smiling, easy harmonies that they "recognize" and hopefully will sing along a little. I want them to feel like we had a total experience and can do it again real soon.

So, yeah...drawing up the list was always a bit time consuming and getting us to agree was a different story...but we liked our formula and it really worked well for us. Also, the #6 spot works porportionately (I'm sorry...I know what this word means, but have a difficult time with the pronunciation and therefore the spelling) to the number of songs. A little off center from the middle on the high end...kinda like a M5.

RB