Those of you who follow my blog may have seen my YouTube tutorial and blog post demonstrating how to index long PDF files in the forScore app on iPad.
I realized earlier this week that I had never moved my Christmas fake books to my iPad and figured it was worth a start. In the past, I found pre-existing CSV indexes from the user forums but today I manually added the song titles inside of the forScore app. Fortunately there is a new (?) button inside of the bookmarks menu called Index that offers to look for a table of contents inside of your pdf and guess some of the song titles and pages numbers for you. This worked well! I had to go in and fix a few things but overall it was a good start.
Of course, I want to practice over the changes of these songs so I pulled up my favorite jazz practice workflow on iPad — sliding iReal Pro into split view — so I could see the chords and play along to practice tracks. Turns out someone on the iReal Pro user forums has made play-alongs for most of the Christmas Real Book that you can download into your library. Here is the link.
Happy Holidays and enjoy!
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