The Set List section of your EPK is the best place to show the versatility and breadth of your work. For performers, speakers and songwriters alike, this area is highly valuable. Have a repertoire of over 350 jazz standards? Talk about it here. You can play every B-side that Journey has ever released? That’s noteworthy. And if you’re a bar band, be sure to let everyone know you can knock out “Freebird” every time it gets shouted out.

Original music needs the Set List section just as much covers. Labels, managers, and publishers all see a difference between an artist without original music and an artist with 10 songs, or between an artist with 10 songs and an artist with 77 songs. A promoter likes to know how much potentially great, unheard material you bring to the table. If you’re a songwriter, you can use the Set List section to list every song and style of song you’ve written since you were 5 (remember that ballad you wrote for your stuffed animal?).

But a Set List is about more than just what you play. It’s also about how you play it. You may have a large band with a 6-piece horn section, washtub player, a gong-ringer and four lion tamers (with or without lions), but that doesn’t mean you can’t do a 2-piece or solo acoustic session for your coffeehouse shows and private parties, each with its own set of songs, covers, and price. Show how your act can fit in multiple places. Of course, if you’re trying to cause the next music revolution, then you may not want to change your act for anything — even for “Freebird” guy.

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