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Old 03-11-2017, 01:10 AM
M Hayden M Hayden is offline
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Originally Posted by Davis Webb View Post
I don't like watching players using tablets either. I learn my song and believe me it takes weeks sometimes. But you feel the music, you work each line carefully. You own the song.

Sorry, but I gotta agree with above.

BUT>>>>for other things that Samsung 18.4 screen for that price , I want one for my other uses!
How are you with someone reading a Real Book on the stand? Because that's what my iPad is, just a sub for carrying several thousand bound pages.

I mean sure, if it's a three- or four chord song, learn it, but there is a sizeable body of music using nonstandard changes, and Real Books are de rigeur for just about every jazz player I've worked with in the last thirty-five years or so....even players who are out playing five nights a week don't know all of those tunes, and the book provides a means for everyone to play a tune they may not all know.
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