Bardsong is of little use when you're soloing IMHO.
Even if you're a Jester with confusion bardsong, you can't sing and do anything else at the same time... and as soon as you stop singing to pick up your sword the confusion ends.
And of course normal bardsong only works to increase your allies combat rolls, so if you have no allies there is no point. But this is a fairly minor point as far as I am concerned. A bard is a bard and that's all you need
------------------
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Epona of The Laughing Hyenas