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If you're comfortable with Android it should be out front, size- and price-wise. PS The handle/stand thing can be removed if you wish. Just a couple of pins to pop out.
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For centuries, musicians have relied on their memories. As I approach my eighth decade I find my memory isn't what it used ro be, but neither is my eyesight. I can recall maybe a few hundred tunes off the top of my head and play along with many more once recall is assisted by hearing the tune, but I can no longer read a single chart other than for study independent of the instrument. I think thre's a difference between being reminded by a chart and being lost without one. W
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Unprofessional!..Really?
This argument has been going on for years. Lets just agree that it really doesnt matter, unless you are a purist....As long as you are playing, having fun doing it, keeping it simple,...and....having fun playing....
I read chord charts with lyrics, and the only down side is that I have a huge book of songs that I cant easily change selections on the fly.... Hence..I am looking at a Tablet and was the reason I opened up this forum entry. Thx all. |
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I'm thinking the iPad and the Onsong app are probably the most obvious...
However, if you want to go Android, I'm sure the Samsung Tablet A will work. An excellent app is Songbook. Easy to use, it scrolls. I have both Onsong and Songbook and they are very similar. I actually use Songbook on my phone with a micstand clip that works great. the lyrics and chords (if u choose) are 6-8 inches from your eyes and the cellphone is a lot more subtle than a bigger tablet. Good luck in your search. |
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I have long been anti music stand, tablets, etc. I memorize everything, if for no other reason than I simply perform the song better when I have it fully internalized. However, I have an app called Setlist on my I-pad and use it in conjunction with an AirTurn when I am learning new songs. I do not set the I-pad up on gigs, but I do have it with me and am not adverse to using it if I get a request for a song I haven't fully memorized. You see more and more people using I-pads all the time, and even big name acts are using prompters of some sort for live shows.
So I think that "unprofessional" tag is pretty much done. However . . . if someone is using one of those chrome, folding rickety Hamilton music stands like sixth graders use at clarinet lessons, yeah, that does look pretty goofy in a professional setting. |
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I do a better job when I am playing and singing from memory. But, there are so many songs, and I just don't have them all memorized. The really devilish thing is that singing from a sheet, whether paper or electronic, impedes the process of memorizing. Another devilish thing is that if I am playing & singing something I do have memorized, but have it up on the tablet for my bandmates, I will focus on the tablet and read the song, rather than channeling it up from memory.
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Until I started reading this forum I never noticed if a musician had a tablet or not. Now I see quite a few. I think the critical thing is to have it low enough that it doesn't intrude into anyone's line of sight. If that means you need the big screen down by your knees then do it. I do find the only time I spot tablets for the performers who have them low is when they interact with them so I would recommend a page turner.
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I used to carry real books and assorted other charts. I know a sizeable collection of standads but I don't know everything, and when someone asks for a tune I'm not ashamed to look it up and read it.
Fortunately, an enormous number of jazz/pop tunes use similar changes - blues of various types, rhythm changes, bop tunes like "Hot House" which are built on "What is this thing called Love," etc. That allows for quick adaptation when someone explains that (for example) "Salt Peanuts" is just rhythm changes in $key du jour. To wit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...zz_contrafacts Even so, it never hurts to look something up. These days, instead of carrying a stack of books that resembles what I carried around at university, i carry an iPad with a couple of different sets of changes for a large number of tunes (>3000), most in lead-sheet format....and a charger. It's a nice backstop and it's extra-useful in (for example) settings where the chart is fully notated and like a thousand pages long. |
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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! |
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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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Use ipad with unreal books now for about 6 months really like the features. Especially the link to dropbox and photo to pdf. Probably ok that I don't look professional since when you close your eyes, don't sound much like it either.
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Is there anything that would work, like perhaps an Amazon Fire tablet, that is really on the inexpensive side? I am a mac person for sure, but can't justify an iPad right now.
Just to put charts on, and also maybe some tracks to play back during breaks? Thanks
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Onsong is very good. I use it on an ipad mini which cost me $100 second hand. You can get a blue tooth pedal that scrolls and moves to next song as well. It transposes, has set lists, and emails song sheets with chord diagrams if you like as pdf.
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