What's on Your Stand?

Steve Price I also try to get my scores in PDF format for my iPad.  I confess that using the page turner (on my teachers recommendation I use Blue Turn) I'm still missing the dang button with my foot, and I feel my blood pressure rising as I approach the end of a page.  Do I look down?  Will I lose my place?  Yeah, I need the agida.
I only occasionally need to use my scanner.

Steve Price Hi Steve, I have a printer at home so what I do is to scan them as pdf and send it to myself. Normally the size would be ok. For those that are smaller size print that I need to convert, I’ll still scan them but on my ipad, I’ll do a screenshot and crop them then stretch them to the desired size. 

Then I’ll select the number of screenshots in the photo app and from there I’ll select to print as pdf. Instead of printing to a printing, I’ll save it on my icloud. 

But these days most sell their scores in PDF editions, but occasionally some has password locked which forescore do not support, for those pdf, I’ll print as pdf and save it as another pdf without password to upload to forscore. Hope this helps! 

Steven Bornfeld Lol, I totally get the anxiety and the blood pressure thing. Mine is mostly when I'm recording a clean take and nearing the end of a piece and it usually leads to beefing something in the last measure. I actually received my foot switch today and thankfully it feels pretty natural, but then I played drums for a lot of years so my coordination isn't too bad. This might be the one thing in guitar that I'm good at, lol.  

don Thanks for the information, Don. And I REALLY appreciate the tip about password-protected scores. I have multiple scores that are a pain since the publisher used my really long email address as the password. I've been creating new PDFs for all of them so thanks a lot. 

Steve Price What is this "clean take" of which you speak?  Asking for a friend.

Steven Bornfeld 

Blaise Laflamme I am totally sold. The main thing holding me back was scanning in music. When I was doing it years ago it was a flatbed scanner, importing files, converting file types, etc. so I was surprised how easy it is now. I started using Mobilesheets to organize and annotate music and being able to color code markings is really helpful. My previous tablet had a 10.1" screen which made it hard to read, but a local retailer happened to have a really good deal on a 14.6" screen. The only thing I need to figure out is a good workflow to back everything up. 

I really appreciate your input since it helped me pull the trigger. 

The only problem I didn't think about was having to share my footswitch, lol. 

Blaise Laflamme Haha yes I have this problem too.   

I am completely wedded to iPad with Forscore now for a couple of years. I avoided it for years not wanting to hassle with yet another piece of technology.   but I have no regrets, and it's pretty easy to take all my music everywhere! 

Blaise Laflamme years ago, I started a meme with the hashtag #cantpractice on FB and Instagram.   it's all in fun, but it started because one of the cats needed attention during a session.   for the last few years it's been mostly dog related 'interruptions'.   Search for #cantpractice in FB and IG. submit your own and use the tag!   here's from this morning:  

#cantpractice:   Can't practice, I HAVE TO GO OUT!!

Blaise Laflamme very often it's the same.   a good solid walk after a session feels really good on the back. 

Blaise Laflamme me too!  I haven't used a footstool since about 1987.   I've tried many over the years and have finally stuck with the Sageworks support.   

Pilates also is a big help!