📖 What's on your music stand right now?

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martin.3
3 wk ago
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The single most useful thread for finding repertoire ideas is the one where everyone just says what they're working on. 🎸

💬 Reply with:

The piece (or pieces) on your stand this week
How long you've been working on it
One thing about it that's currently giving you trouble

No need to be polished — works in progress are the point. And feel free to scroll the replies for ideas on what to tackle next.

- Steven_Bornfeld
- 3 wk ago
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HVL Prelude 4, Brouwer Estudios Sencillo VI (yeah, I'm having trouble with stability and speed in my arps). Also, just because--Lauro Venezuelan Waltz no. 2.
- BLaflamme
  
  3 wk ago
  
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  Oh, you're for the classics!
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  3 wk ago
  
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  Ya gotta crawl before you walk. I've got more music than I can tackle in 2 lifetimes. I've been more or less systematically going through the solo guitar works of HVL. I did the Suite Populaire Bresilienne first (not that I've exactly mastered it--far from it). And you'd think I'd head to Etude 1 esp. since I've already noted my arpeggio problem. I'll get there. My problem with Etude 1 is my left hand cramps up. So I think I'll be starting on Prelude 5 soon. But I get distracted by bright shiny things, so no promises.
- BLaflamme
  
  3 wk ago
  
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  Maybe you should play it fast enough before the cramps come! 😅 Joke aside, the Suite Populaire Brésilienne is a beautiful set of pieces.
- John_Mardinly
- 3 wk ago
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An iPad. TONS of stuff in it.
- BLaflamme
  
  3 wk ago
  
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  Same for me, I'm glad I've moved to the iPad as a score container!
- “Do or do not. There is no try”
  
  Michelle_P
  
  11 days ago
  
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  I have an iPad with tons of stuff too, but somehow I'm still printing things out.😕
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  11 days ago
  
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  Yeah, me too. One of the reasons is that I'm to easily frustrated learning my way around ForScore and editing on paper with a pencil is still so much quicker for me.
- BLaflamme
  
  10 days ago
  
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  For my part, I'm happy not to have tons of sheet music lying around all over my studio anymore... just for that reason, I wouldn't go back to paper! 😅
- BLaflamme
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Personally, I don't see much difference when using my iPad with the pencil, and I also have a screen protector that gives a paper-like feel, the best of both worlds!
- Steve_Price
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I love having everything on a tablet and using different colors for different things, plus it's so easy to change things or have different versions. With a foot pedal for page turns I'm really happy with the set up.
- John_Mardinly
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Me too! Like if I am going somewhere to play and don't want to risk my iPad. I put my fingerings in red, and I love the way the paper print is exactly what I have in my 4score file.
- BLaflamme
  
  10 days ago
  
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  You're right, so convenient... also when I'm proofreading or working out a new work with a composer it's so easy to export and share my annotated score as PDF!
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Maybe I'll try that. Still not finding ForScore terribly intuitive to use.
- BLaflamme
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I'm not using ForScore, didn't like it the first time I opened it, I'm using Newzik for iPad.
- Eric
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I use the free IMSLP app. It does everything I want.
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Thank you--I'll take a look at it.
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Thank you--does it handle all the common file formats?
- Eric
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I have never had a file I could not open. In the app, you can search IMSLP, where I get a lot of my music. Then, when I find scores from other sites, I just hit the download button in the corner, and my iPad asks me what I want to open it with. I choose the IMSLP app, and I’m there. I annotate the score with my stylus, and it lets me choose any color I want.
- John_Mardinly
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I love 4score, but I have ONE big complaint: they keep changing stuff for no good reason so a tap that worked yesterday does some different today.
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  10 days ago
  
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  I'm sure it's fine; if there were a quickstart guide that would give me all the basics, I wouldn't have to wade through long videos to find what I need. I'm not exactly a technophobe (but I'm old, so I fit the profile), but I hate long user manuals. Like the phone book that came with my Zoom H4n. Yeah, the changes are probably one of the reasons I can't find what I need.
- Steven_Bornfeld
  
  10 days ago
  
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  Thanks--will definitely check it out.
- Ron.3
  
  9 days ago
  
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  Thanks for suggesting the IMSLP app. I've used ForScore for a while, but I haven't made much use of the IMSLP library yet
- Retired
- mgshirk
- 3 wk ago
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Well, I have Cancion y Danza no. 1 by Antonio Ruiz Pipo, working on the Danza right hand fingering only, no left hand, to get the pattern down. Very difficult.
- BLaflamme
  
  3 wk ago
  
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  This is a great choice, I never played it but definitely a piece that worth the work!