Did you know you can create custom stamps for music annotation and save them to forScore’s stamp library? Use the stamp editor to hand-draw any symbol or notation you like and add it to the annotation toolbar.
Video: forScore Tutorial: Create custom stamps with the Stamp Editor (4:44)
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Here’s a quickie tutorial on how to import PDF music score files directly from the web into forScore using forScore’s built-in web browser.
Video: forScore Tutorial: Web PDF download/import of music score files (2:50)
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Credit: AirTurn
AirTurn, the company that makes the Bluetooth page-turning pedals, has a very nifty interactive app finder on their website that can recommend a music-reading app based on what work you do with music, what features you want, and/or your computing platform. Not too surprisingly, it focuses on apps that are AirTurn-compatible, but that doesn’t keep it from being a great source of information and software options for both tablets and desktops/laptops.
P.S. Thanks to Going Digital for Musicians for mentioning this resource!
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Following up on my how-to post on iPad screencasts: Matt L. at Performing Arts Technology @ UNCG has blogged about another method for recording iPad screencasts using Reflection, TouchPosé, audio software, and your computer. His method also requires a jailbreak (at least for showing the touch gestures) as well as more hardware and software, but it is superior to my method in terms of the audio quality that is recorded from apps.
Read the full post here: Screencasting on iPad (a followup)
Matt, thanks for sharing this info!
On a related note: Chris R. from Technology in Music Education warns us of a fraudulent display recording app in Apple’s App Store that is masquerading as a previously-existing app that really did record the iPad display but got pulled from the Apple App Store. Here is a link to the bad app: Disp Recorder It’s times like these that I wish the Apple App Store had a no-questions-asked 15-minute refund period like the Google Play app store, a policy that’s saved me more than once when an app did not perform as expected or advertised.
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If you’re new to forScore, start with this 15-minute tutorial. It’s a hands-on introduction where I walk you through the process of importing a PDF music score, annotating and navigating the score, and browsing your scores in forScore’s music library menu. If you’re a forScore veteran, please share this with other musicians who are new to forScore or who are curious about using a tablet as a music reader.
Video: forScore Tutorial: Getting Started (14:47)
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How to use the Rearrange tool in forScore to cut, copy, paste, and re-order pages in a score and enable hands-free navigation of codas, cuts, and repeats. For an alternate method of navigating codas, cuts, and repeats that’s easier to set up but doesn’t have a hands-free option, see this tutorial on Links.
Video: forScore Tutorial: Hands-free repeats, codas, and cuts with Rearrange (9:40)
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Choral Library is a free iPhone app (also runs on iPad) that lets you browse and download works from the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL). It also shows basic info about the work, including the text when available.
On the iPhone, Choral Library is a lot easier to use than the CPDL website. On the iPad, it’s less necessary because the bigger screen more readily accommodates the CPDL website, but it is still a useful search alternative if you prefer tapping to typing on your iOS device.
Credit: Choral Library
Credit: Choral Library
Credit: Choral Library
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Chris Russell at Technology in Music Education has posted some great slides from his recent presentations on the topic of iPads in the choir room. Although music educators were the intended audience, much of the content is useful for musicians of all stripes.
His August 9 post has slides from two sessions. In the session “The iChoir: Are you ready for it?”, the first half makes a case for the iPad as the device of choice in the choral classroom. The second half describes “seventeen ways to integrate an iPad in choral music” and even includes app suggestions for library/apparel/robe management. The second session, “Technology ‘How-To'”, was more of a hands-on session, but the slides have some general tips for getting started with the iPad as well as more specific advice for scanning sheet music and accessory recommendations.
His August 14 post has another pair of slide decks. “70 (85) iPad Apps in 70 Minutes” is a hard-core listing of general and music apps – you’ll want your iPad on hand and opened to the App Store as you follow along with these slides. “Essential iPad Skills for Music Education” covers much of the same material as “Technology ‘How-To'”.
Going on a bit of a technical tangent today. Hugh S. from Going Digital for Musicians asked about how I create the iPad screencast videos for the forScore tutorial series. I know of two ways to create screencasts by direct video capture on the iPad: (more…)
Here’s an overview of how to draw, type, and stamp annotations into your score.
Video: forScore Tutorial: Annotation Basics (12:16)
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