Since iGigBook is essentially a PDF manager, any PDF can be imported and used. Or I have to make one from scratch that is better than anything out there. Why? Sometimes there is no chart that is ideal, and I want to combine details from multiple charts. But I also make a lot of custom scores (using MuseScore… worthy of a separate review). But this doesn’t always work right (more on this below).Ĭlumsy process to update PDFs - Fake Book PDFs don’t change. No backup options - There is no easy way to backup your data. There is even an iPhone app, but remarkably, no way to get your songs and charts and set lists to sync between that and your iPad. There is no support for sharing your library via iCloud, Dropbox, or anything of the sort. No sync options - All your iGigBook data is stuck on your iPad. But I accumulated a bunch of problems that finally caught up with me. I used iGigBook Pro for about 6 years quite successfully. And most importantly, no more fumbling to find songs: they’re a few taps away. No more duffel bags full of books, or binders with sleeves to haul around. You can then compare the charts, pick the one that you like best, and create Set Lists for gigs, or just rehearse. Once you load the PDF, you can now search for a given song name and it will show you every match of that song across every PDF book you have loaded into the app. You can then repeat the process with all your other PDF books, many of which will overlap by presenting different charts of the same songs but each book will always bring a bunch of distinct songs as well. These indexes include at least Song Name and Page # data. What you have to bring is a PDF scan of each book you’re interested in and load it into one of the built-in indexes. Built into the app are dozens of indexes of all kinds of Fake Books for jazz, blues, even classical, Christmas music, Bossa Nova, etc. All of it at your fingertips, in real time, on any gig.Īvailable for both iPad and Android tablets, this app quite beautifully solves these problems. IGigBook ties it all together real books, fake books, tranposing chord charts, and single sheets. IGigBook Sheet Music Manager For Android/iOS Plus, you probably have them in alphabetical order, which is useless once a Set List is prepared for a gig. Per the number of songs, this is even bulkier, and it’s also limited to only those songs you already have collected, likely from having done them before. Other friends make giant 3-ring binders with plastic sleeves to house the charts they have collected from all kinds of random places over the years. By that time, the rest of the players are probably half done the tune. So you have to fetch the book, look in its index, then go turn to that page and plop this giant book on your music stand. And both are clumsy because even after you find the book, neither one tells you the page number. Of course, you need a live internet connection for the latter. The Fake Book Index - locate tunes by title search in over 70 jazz fake books. There’s another tool that lets you search across more books: To solve this problem, Hal Leonard does have a PDF that indexes across multiple books:īut that only covers books published by them. But besides the bulk and weight of that, and trying to balance such heavy books on portable (flimsy) music stands, you also face the very real problem (pun not intended) of not knowing which book a song is in. I have one friend who plays winds, and carries around literally a duffel bag full of these Fake Books. And if you don’t have the music, you simply won’t be able to join into an improv session. While I play a bunch of styles of music, what got me going down this path was getting into Jazz music, where there are probably a dozen “Fake Books” that players fetch their music from. Maybe you will also have some suggestions for me. Hi folks! I’ve spent about 6 years trying to manage sheet music on my iPad, and I thought I’d share some tips with the community.
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