Aussiesucker
1388 posts
May 06, 2014
5:53 PM
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Would be interested in picking some brains on how others manage their music needs when doing gigs? Personally I have all my backing tracks on an Android Galaxy Phone, which works great, plus a number of books with sheet music, tabs and or lyrics. Both the phone and the books are on a music stand which I have adapted to hold 2 mics ie Fireball for harp and Shure for vocals. The system, sort of, suits my needs when playing alone. But I always have too much stuff and hold firm to a belief that less is more.
At our regular bluegrass jams we work from 2 manuals containing music, chords and lyrics to over 500 tunes. Plus there are always up to 5 new tunes introduced every jam that are not in the books. Between 20 -30 people attend the jams at which so far in nearly 3 years of jamming with them I am the only harp player. I’m not lonely but I sometimes have to work hard! Lately I have noticed a trend amongst many of the musicians to bring ipads or android tablets on which they have stored the sheet music, chords and lyrics from both manuals. Plus for any new music they are introduced to at a jam there are invariably insufficient hard copies so they just take a pic and it goes into their music folder. Simple.
What I am interested to find out if there is an app available which can marry both the visible sheet music/chords/lyrics or tabs plus include MP3 backing tracks ie all in one application. Have everything stored on a 10” tablet ready to roll. Would need easy queuing and the ability to make playlists to cover different gigs . Does anyone know if such an app exist?
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HARPOLDIE’S YOUTUBE
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