Charger's mounted to my pedalboard. Cable kept in pedalboard case.
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Carrying Sheet Music
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One of those plastic zip-tie folders. But I'm looking for something more organized. I don't want anything digital.
Keep a charger with the instrument cables or pedalboard, they are cheap. I also keep a couple of small USB pocket batteries in the boot of my car for gigs where outlets are sparse.
this only works for regular size sheets of paper, but that's mostly what I get/use.
I scan what I need with at Fuji scan snap and make it a .pdf.
I carry music in my gig bag using one of those little clear plastic report covers like kids use in school. In fact, I stole mine from one of my kids...(with permission of course).
If something ever ends up MIA or gets too beat up, I have the .pdf of it, so I can just re-print. It's a pretty good little system. Only down side is that if I make hand-written notes on something, the new copy is missing that info.
I scan what I need with at Fuji scan snap and make it a .pdf.
I carry music in my gig bag using one of those little clear plastic report covers like kids use in school. In fact, I stole mine from one of my kids...(with permission of course).
If something ever ends up MIA or gets too beat up, I have the .pdf of it, so I can just re-print. It's a pretty good little system. Only down side is that if I make hand-written notes on something, the new copy is missing that info.
My brain.
I thought musicians were supposed to memorize the changes...
I thought musicians were supposed to memorize the changes...
This standard sheet music folder holds two big piles of 9/12" charts, has a bungee closure and even a pencil holder. It won't do for the giant jazz catalog, but for student, classical, big-band or pit it's great.
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I am a 'tweener (between paper and digital). All my music is on the computer, but I print what I need before a gig and carry paper in the case (no folders needed), which I dispose of when the gig is done.
As mentioned above, the notes get lost, but sometimes I bring home the notes and add them to the digital master.
As mentioned above, the notes get lost, but sometimes I bring home the notes and add them to the digital master.
I use an old Rolodex, with blank cards and alpha dividers...I have the title and major chords, or basic note runs , Verse Chorus etc laid out
(it is odd to read because depending on the song and when we wrote it and my bass learning curve most say Verse A C B Chorus F G & some say E 000 2 3 2 x4 like a tab, with my own coding for octaves, quarter or 8th notes, big swooping arrows for "back to the top")...mostly I just glance at some of them for a quick reminder (yes) crutch,
(it is odd to read because depending on the song and when we wrote it and my bass learning curve most say Verse A C B Chorus F G & some say E 000 2 3 2 x4 like a tab, with my own coding for octaves, quarter or 8th notes, big swooping arrows for "back to the top")...mostly I just glance at some of them for a quick reminder (yes) crutch,
Yes but only if you set it up to do that.
Simple songs and regularly gigged songs... yes.
Realistically though, times have changed. Few of us are gigging several nights/week or derive our sole income from gigs. I was in a Function Band with a 200 song repertoire.....
If I gave you a list of 200 of your favorite songs could you sing them to me?
This ^^
I've got around 450 songs on mine now and nearly all of them have the song in MP3 form attached to the sheet. If needed I'll change the key of the MP3 to suit and have the original attached as well.
Initially i was paranoid of not having the physical sheets as a backup but I haven't had to use sheets on stage for years now and the folder was getting stupidly large. The app is so handy for practicing...... select the sheet on the app, hit play and practice along with the song. I've also got a stack of backing tracks attached to just freeform jam/practice with. Everything is backed up on numerous devices. Lately I've been hitting the random button and playing along with whatever sheet it chooses. Keeps things fresh to avoid getting bored with the same old songs.
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I carry the music in my head. I have been playing for 40 years and have never relied on sheet music or charts. I learn the song and I play. I have played everything from small venues to less than 50 people to outdoor gigs in front 25,000 and have never needed sheet music.
I bought a Samsung tablet about two years ago - then it took me a year of saying "I'll scan /PDF all my charts one day" - finally around the holidays last year, I started loading the tablet with only the charts I use on a regular basis - and now I don't know why I waited so long to go paperless - now, any new band or sub situation - or my regular band learns a new tune (and we have to add new tunes for weddings mainly) - everything that I chart out, now goes straight into my Samsung - not worried about forgetting the charger - it lives in my gig bag. Now that I'm paperless, there's no way I'm going to drag around any kind of binder or "analog backup" - no way. Kinda like a modern day DJ dragging around crates of friggin' LP's. I found a nice little mount that screws to the mic stand (at GC believe it or not - went on Amazon to find one and there's like one million different types), so I said screw it - go see what GC has, and for $30 - I'm all set - and it's a decent quality one too. I was the last one in my band to ditch the charts and most bands I sub in - they're all paperless, so it was time - I was feeling like the old timer that can't adapt to this new technology.
Funny story - I subbed on a gig a few months ago and the female vocalist, 30-something years old, had a big fat binder full of charts and during a song, that binder went backwards off the music stand because the tilt screw was loose or something - and I glance down at my tablet thinking - yeah, this is a good idear alright.
Funny story - I subbed on a gig a few months ago and the female vocalist, 30-something years old, had a big fat binder full of charts and during a song, that binder went backwards off the music stand because the tilt screw was loose or something - and I glance down at my tablet thinking - yeah, this is a good idear alright.
I have some books with sheet music and some manuscript pages that I've hand written. What I did was scan the sheets that I'm studying from into PDF docs and store them on my MacBook Pro. I also use the laptop for some music notation programs, DAWs and music training programs. Works for me.
