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The Henle music app. Hands down.
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I have used forScore and an AirTurn pedal for years (and an Apple Pencil for marking up scores) and am very happy with them. https://www.tablets-for-musicians.com/ seems to have good information about them and other apps and devices.
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I have been using MobileSheets for some time including in concerts etc and I am very satisfied. Cheap, does the job and its creator Zubersoft is helpful with queries. I recommend.
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Sedef CANKOCAK Second MobileSheets. For concerts, you can actually create setlists containing the pieces you want to perform. MobileSheets also allows you to import full pdfs, or just sections (such as importing just one movement). If you store your pdf files on something like google drive, onedrive or dropbox, you can also transfer or sync changes to your sheet music (including annotations like fingerings or notes, or creating bookmarks in your music) and access those across multiple devices (maybe if you have a tablet and a smartphone and can't bring your tablet with you for example).
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I also use Mobile Sheets that I recommend.
For chamber music, I have a PageFlip Butterfly when there is nobody to turn pages and for rehearsals.
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If Henle has a score I’m looking for, I buy it. Most of their scores have a least one option for fingering and it’s very easy to change fingering by erasing and using their template to add the desired fingering. I use the text boxes for making notes while I’m learning the piece and dynamic markings can be added using their template. Henle has a performance mode so you don’t have to worry about an email or notification popping up at the top of your screen while you’re playing. So if you like your scores to look clean and organized, Henle is the way to go.
The other app I use is PiaScore. It’s not as popular as ForScore but it works fine with my airturn pedal and apple pencil. If I can find a clean-looking, easy to read score on IMSLP, I download it directly on to PiaScore. Other options are downloading scores from other sources, or making a pdf of a print score and uploading it to PiaScore.
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Hi Kenneth, I recently did the same thing, and have found Forscore to be excellent. The Apple Pencil is very useful for making your own annotations. The Duo pager turner works well with it. I have the Henle app and do purchase Henle editions. Those are easily loaded into Forscore. The Henle app looks fine too-I defer to others with more experience with it, particularly with regard to loading non- Henle scores into it, annotating, and creating playlists/bookmarks. Forscore is good in all those areas.
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ForScore is my favorite app to use on my ipad for all my scanned music. I also love their page turning feature using my mouth. I do have to pay for that feature., But the cost is less than $10.00/year. For me, it’s so worth it. But they do have the option of turning pages with a pedal. I just am clumsy doing that. I love being able to edit my score to accommodate my small hands. I can white out notes I can’t reach and put them in range of my other hand. I love collating my music and saving all my precious fingerings and edits. It’s silly, but fun to make my own emoticons and import them in and use them to call attention to a harder or favorite section.
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I've been using ForScore and iRig page turning pedal for years in performances, teaching and for practice. It has been working fabulously until recently. I do a lot of annotations (Apple pencil works great) and recently the cropping feature in ForScore has been acting up and the the annotations don't line up. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but I have found several complaints on Reddit about it.
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I've been using ForScore for a number of years (6 or 7 maybe?). I *much* prefer it to the Henle app -- better for annotations, score management, and ability to use scores obtained elsewhere, etc. As someone else mentioned, you can easily import digital scores purchased from Henle, which is where I get most of my scores.
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Forscore+page turner pedal blu tooth+apple pencil
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Roberto I second this
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Dominic's course titled "Music Technology: the IPad" was extremely helpful. Please go here to view: https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/music-technology-ipad-piano.
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Also, Martin has this course that may be helpful: https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/intro-to-video-editing
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I Like Musescore
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Here's a rather dumb question for those who use a pedal page turner. Where do you put the pedal? i.e. to the right or left of the piano pedals, in front of them, behind your foot? etc.
I ask because I still use paper music books, but have been very excited about the possibilities of using the iPad instead. I got the ForScore & Henle Apps and the Duo page turner, but when trying to use it, I found my foot fishing for it and interfering with my pedaling and being so distracting that I'm still using paper 2 years later! I know that ultimately I have to sit down and spend time learning/using it to incorporate it into my repertoire of movements, but before I invest too much time in establishing habits of movement, I wonder whether you folks have settled on an optimum placement and if so where?
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Peter Golemme I put it to the left of the pedals and operate it with my left foot. It does take a little getting used to. I try to make sure my foot is securely on the pedal well before it's time to execute the page turn. I am usually playing without shoes so that does make it easier to feel confident about my foot placement.
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Dan Schmidt thanks Dan. I’ll try it there. I overuse the left pedal anyway as a substitute for playing more softly so maybe this would help break me of that habit!
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Peter Golemme I put it next to the left pedal. I understand you. I have bought it and the didn‘t use it one month, because I was confused when I tried to use it. And than I decided, I have to practice each time with it. One month later it is okay. And I also decided the exact place when I will push it. Try it again. It is really helpful. I am playing Chopin Sonata 3 and I have no time to get all in my memory. Have fun.
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Kerstin Thank you Kerstin. To the left of the pedals seems to be the preferred location. Dominic also said on one of the livestreams that that's where he puts it. I'm starting some new pieces this month and going to make a concerted effort to use the iPad as my primary score and the DuoTone as my page turner as part of the learning process.
Good luck with your Chopin Sonata. that's certainly an ambitious project! I hope you'll share a performance of it with us when you are ready.
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Within easy reach of my right foot, shod or unshod.
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Sedef CANKOCAK thanks Sedef. That’s where I first had it & had a lot of trouble getting on & off at the right times. Not to mention groping for it. It did make for some comical videos. Guess there’s no substitute for making the time to work with it & get used to it, wherever it’s ultimately placed.
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Half an hour of constant use during chamber music practice going to and fro was sufficient for me to overcome turn anxiety but even now when the page turn is during a rapid passage, I make sure I know the first measure on the following page by heart; I also note it on the screen.
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I use my left foot and got some velcro that I attached to the bottom so that the pedal sticks to a little carpet that I keep under the piano pedals. But, I must admit, I'm still nervous to use it for a performance. Like Sedef CANKOCAK I use it mostly for chamber music because there are sooo many more pages to turn.
I'm scared to use it for repeated sections, though, because when I try to go backwards I overshoot the page I need!
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Gail Starr thanks for the input Gail. Dominic had a workaround for the repeats with ForScore, which I think was mentioned in his technology course. I forget the details but it was something like duplicating the repeated measures and pasting/inserting them into the score as part of a new PDF. or something like that.
I've just started to work with it. Velcro is an ingenious solution to the sliding! I've got a 1.5" thick cutting board on the floor under my pedals, to elevate my feet because the piano is relatively high off the floor*. The board is not big enough to accommodate the page turning pedal, so I'll have to find a bigger board or develop a different adaptation . It's always something!
*(my feet were inexplicably hurting after we got the piano; I thought it was my shoes or my exercise routine, but my very astute wife noticed that I was holding my feet at a very high angle to reach the pedals. she suggested the cutting board and voila, pain gone! I never would have made that connection on my own!)
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