![]() Even if you’re not a gigging musician, it’s still something you can use to organize your library even further. I also used to play bass in bands when I was young, so I can totally see how useful the set list functionality of SongBookPro would be. Now, with SongBookPro, I’m doing the exact same thing only it’s way easier – looking up chords and adding notes to them, except now they’re perfectly organized in one place (my iPad that spends 99% of its time on my music rest above my piano), and the songs are easy to find, and then there is no manual flipping of paper because the song scrolls with me as I play! And if I ever wanted to return to my messy paper, I could always print out my SongBook from the app (but I’m liking the “no paper” option). And when I go to play the sheets (when I can find them) they often slide off my music rest etc. I play modern songs on the piano, and learned how to play piano with a chord based approach (I have reviews on some awesome online piano training courses I took here) so this app is FANTASTIC for me! Before I found this app, I would look up chords for a song on Ultimate Guitar (just like this app does!), print them out, scrawl notes all over them and TRY to keep them organized, but for the most part they are in a big messy pile. The Verdict – SongBookPro Digital Songbook This app is totally worth picking up (and remember you can test it out first to see if you like it you’re just limited to the number of songs you can have in your library so it’s no risk). I bought the iOS app in the summer of July 2020 and it was extremely affordable – under $10 CDN! And the best thing is it is a one time fee, so no recurring costs that go forever, and no ads either. I thought the best way to demonstrate how to use the app was to do a narrated screen capture that goes through the steps of importing a song and working with it, so I’ve linked below to my YouTube review. You can also share your library between your devices with an online storage account. Then, you can organize your library into set lists, configure bluetooth page turning pedals, use a metronome, switch to a lyric only mode (for when you memorize those chords!), all sorts of very useful stuff. And then if you’ve defined the tempo in BPM and the song duration, you can have the song scroll for you at the correct speed. You can import lyrics and chords from sites like Ultimate Guitar, choose to transpose the song if you like, and then you can edit the song itself! You can add liner notes, hi-lites, all sorts of really useful options. While you can add songs by scanning in PDFs of sheet music or chord charts/lyrics, I think the super cool use for this app is if you’re playing modern songs with a chord-based approach. ![]()
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