9/27/2023 0 Comments Ireal pro db![]() Interesting that you mentioned a bass player, they are the ones that really benefit from all this. The more you can reduce these and get them into the other categories the better. Better to have a few groups of tunes-ġ- tunes you know perfectly and have played many times.Ģ- tunes you have a pretty good idea of, but you fill in a few blanks with the chartĤ- tunes you have no clue on, but you can get through with a chart. Ideally it would be great if we all knew 500 standards with no chart and could transpose instantly, but I don't think that's the best use of practice time for most people. It's a great time to be a jazz musician right now, so much great technology is available. Yes that's a good suggestion to have some PDFs in addition to IRealPro. Why not just bite the bullet and be a professional? Having accurate charts is just as important - maybe more so - than that primo archtop or boutique amp that cost a fortune. In case any of you think I'm just being a cranky motherfucker Mike Moreno echoed similar sentiments at a clinic at the University of New Orleans. I get that getting legal PDF fakebooks and an iPad is an initial expensive investment, but the irony here is many if not most of the good young players, like this bassist, are already spending multiple thousands of dollars on college, and you can get an accurate library of hundreds of standards and a reconditioned iPad for a few hundred dollars. After one tune I said "if you ever play this tune again there are some hits that are part of the form that you may want to know." His response was "I've never heard that tune before," which pretty much proves my point if you don't know a tune and you're trying to play it from a shitty chart you're going to fuck it up. Several times I said to him "I have the chart right here" and he ignored me. When that happened the bassist pulled them up on his phone, but I was right next to him with an iPad with PDF charts culled from the Chuck Sher New Real books and other vetted sources. There were a lot of the leader's original tunes and ones from other composers he had charts on, but he also called some standards. I was working with a bandleader for the first time and he had a young bassist - a very good player - who I'd only ever played with once before. Here's what happened on my gig last night: The tunes are crowd sourced and you get what you pay for. The collections of tunes in the the iReal are the same but worse there are so many bad changes in those that it's ridiculous, plus you have none of the other useful info like melodies, bass lines, rhythm section hits, and so on. That book was compiled by students at Berklee and that's why there were so many errors they didn't have the skills yet to transcribe the music accurately. I grew up when the Real Book filled this function, but I was warned early on by older musicians not to rely on it too much because of how many errors there were in it. Obviously it's a super handy app to have and there are times when it's a useful tool, but if you're using it as your default way of getting through gigs you're being a slacker. Swapping sheets with other musicians could benefit, too.These days it seems like everyone uses the iReal Pro for basic charts on gigs. I like that concept very much, since I can use MSP for organizing all sheetmusic files in all formats with the database but also use the native apps and their benefits (expecially transposing in iRealPro/MuseScore). ![]() If for example one prefers another app for ChordPro files, why not associate that, too. If somebody has chord charts in spreadsheet format, it could be started and viewed with a spreadsheet app, same with Word-docs and other file formats I've seen chords and music in. But of course this could be extended to other (for sheet viewing) useful file formats. Initially I thought only about iRealPro and MuseScore. After closing the external app it should return back to MSP (much like when you start a file from a file explorer like Solid Explorer or ES Explorer). I suggest you allow to associate files to songs that aren't PDF and the likes, which can't processed by MSP, namely files like *.MCSZ (Musescore) *.html (exported iRealPro).Īnd when you start the song from the songlist, collection or setlist MSP works as launcher for the native program the files are associated with. MSP already allows placeholder songs with no files associated. While I would be delighted if MSP could support iRealPro and MuseScore files natively I'm aware there is only the slightest chance that you will be able to bring this into MSP in the future or at all because of the technical and legal difficulties.īut I've been thinking that there is another solution which is a bit of a compromise but nearly as good and with no legal and (I guess) little technical problems. Mike, I want to bring this thread to the front again.
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