📯 how to use FORSCORE? easy GUIDE ft. my SETUP when performing with the app
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- *YES! The background sound is too loud! Since posting this, my editing has changed. If you can watch the video and ingore the loud music - you might find it pretty useful. 🥹. (edit: 04/27/2024)
👋🏼 hello friends, i decided to make a short and quick guide on how to use forScore. this app is so amazing, but it definitely took me a while to figure out how to use it. i hope that this video will help you if you are ever interested in moving some of your music to an iPad. please let me know if you have any questions.
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00:00 hello
00:06 intro
my setup:
00:46 iPad
01:17 apple pencil
01:36 pedal
02:51 music stand
forScore
04:33 forScore most used
04:34 auto-lock
05:28 how to save music
06:14 title and composer change
06:57 how to search
07:13 how to scan
07:44 setlists
09:01 how to rearrange
09:57 quick recap
10:19 extra little things
10:18 metronome
10:38 how to adjust and crop
10:59 how to annotate
11:30 how to use stamps (misspelled this one, hehe)
12:26 templates
13:04 last words
13:40 final questions
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hi! let me know what tools are your favorite if you use this app 🎵.
if you don’t, what kind of app do you use to have your music on an iPad?
Thank you Tabifa, I’ll have a look as soon as I return home. I bet this helps!
Thank you so much.
Totally! I’m happy I could help!
I use stamps, but most of them are done in red to make them stand out. For example, ANY time I miss a note because I forgot the accidental earlier in the bar, it gets a red accidental. Then later, if after learning the piece well enough that I don't need that extra accidental, having it in a different color makes it clear I can just erase it.
This is such a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Will try it in my practicing as well.
Thank you for this detailed overview of your workflow. I just got an iPad and I’m considering whether to start with forscore or newzik.
For my purposes (solo guitar), it looks like your workflow would do everything I need so I’m going to start with forscore.
that’s so good to hear! i’ve never heard about the newzik, but will definitely check it out.
all my friends in classical music world use forScore, it could be because the team that owns the app are constantly listening to their costumers and update settings.
here are the things that i left out:
- once you have a lot of music in it, you can back it up, so in case something bad happens, you will always be able to put the music back and not lose everything (i never did this, just because i haven’t moved all my music in it yet)
- when creating setlists, there is also an option of creating albums than contain setlists. helps a lot with organizing.
- the app always has the option to have a person lead, like if everyone has an iPad and a forScore, only the lead person turns the page and then everyone has it turned automatically (pretty cool for a youth orchestra, but it would drive me crazy not to be in control of my own music)
- when you go to settings, you can also change some shortcuts that your Apple Pencil has, like what happens when you double tap, or have one tap etc.
i think this is it, if anything comes up i’ll add. but again, i just wanted to show what i usually use in the app - not everything the app can do (bc i honestly still dont know everything about it)
Hello,
I am new to Forscore and I did enjoyed your video and will find it useful in the future I’m sure. Right now I am looking for a way to make each page in bold letters. Does Forscore offer this option?
Thank you for your video as well as your help in advance.
Sonny
Hi! I’m so happy you found this video useful! Do you mean to have in bold the title on the page that you already imported? Or do you mean when you use the letters options to make it in Bold?
The letter option please. I’m loading songs from Pages and not allowing me to use bold for some reason so I’m hoping I can do that with ForScore. Thank you so much for your help.
I’m honestly not super familiar with this, but, let’s try this:
• tap the open page in forScore
• tap on the little line on top right corner (it is right next to the search bar)
• once you are there you have tons of options to choose from, so click on the letter - that will allow you to type.
• once you typed in the word, look on bottom right where you have the “Aa” sign. tap on it, it will give you options to change the size as well as the font.
ahhh, I hope this helps.
I have the same pedal and agree with everything she says here. There's no feedback (clicky feel), so if you are using split page and intensely focused on the bottom of the page where you are reading the music, it can be hard to tell whether it even turned the page at all until you look up. It also requires a fair amount of force to trigger. Not excessive, but enough that turning the page is not all that subtle if you are seated. Also, the pedals are just close enough together that unless you keep your foot on the pedal all the time, it's hard to feel confident you are going to press the correct pedal without looking down to check.
With some practice, you get the hang of it, so I'm not sure it's necessarily worth the cost to upgrade (which is why I still use it), but if you are searching out which pedal to buy, I'd say spend the extra to get the one she recommends. I have friends who have that one, and I've tried it, and it is a much better experience.
Ahhhh you literally described how I feel playing with this pedal ahahaha! I totally agree that you can get used to it, but it constantly feels so risky performing with it. This is why I always ask to use somebody else’s pedal.
UPDATE: Since leaving this comment, I have updated to the Airturn DUO 500. Same company, just the next level up. Much better. There is just enough physical movement of the pedal to give me a confident amount of feedback, and I don't really ever miss a turn as a result. It is more expensive for sure, but worth it, IMO. And the battery life is incredible. I used it for two weeks, several performances, many rehearsals, and lots of practice, nearly 100 hours of use, and the app showed that it still has around halfway charged. Pretty amazing.
@@backpacker3421 this is so awesome!!! Thank you so much for telling me/us! I will definitely try it out!
I have this old AirTurn and had some difficulty since, even though the base is quite grippy, it did tend to 'run away' from my foot. Solved with a bit of BluTak on the base! P.S. what does ft. mean in the title of this video? I hope it's not the internet slang term that sprang to mind!
@@MrAndyforrest*ft. is often used as an abbreviation for *featuring. like featuring the things i use with forScore. i honestly don’t even know what else ft. stands for on the internet and kind of don’t want to know 😂😂😂. thanks for double checking.
Thank you for all these helpful tips; they've been incredibly useful! I've been using this app for a few months now, and it has completely transformed my daily routine. While I initially enjoyed using my original paper method, I've found that this app is far more effective in every aspect.
I totally agree with you! I play everything from it except orchestra auditions’ material (excerpts + concertos). Some orchestras allow iPads but some do not. This is why I just use the iPad for everything else just to stay consistent.
May I know what pedal do you use?
I use iRig BlueTurn.@@tavifagascon
One of the most challenging aspects I face during a performance is the task of turning pages while wearing heels. 😆
Do you need wifi connection in order to use the forscore app and the Bluetooth pedal when performing?
Hi, you do not. 1. If the music is saved to your iPad, it’s just there without being needed to be downloaded. In the past when I was using Google docs, I always needed wifi and it was so stressful and unpredictable. 2. Wifi is not needed to connect Bluetooth to the iPad.
Any idea how to do this in Windows? I tried just using Acrobat Reader and a pointer made for powerpoint presentations but all it does is scroll instead of flip the page. Not going to buy a tablet and instead would like to simply replace the note standard on my piano with an ultrawide monitor I have extra. I'd only need to be able and flip pages in one click, not rearrange them or anything.
Let me ask a few friends of mine, it might take me a few hours to respond but I might have an answer.
Hi, unfortunately, my friends just told me that forScore only works with iPads running iPadOS 15 or later, iPhones or iPod Touches running iOS 15 or later, and Macs running macOS 12 or later. So sorry that it does not work for any other platforms such as Windows or Android.
Hi there,
Loved the information, but not the many many video editor cuts that make a movie stuttering. It is really annoying for musicians, especially those who have to deal with things like perfectionism, ADHD or just plain authism. Haha.... But still I do sincerely thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you for your feedback. For my next educational videos I’ll definitely leave out cuts as well as turn down the volume of the music. I’m so new to TH-cam and still learning how best to edit these types of videos.
I guess, I had in mind that these days, everyone watches Shorts/TikTok/Reels where everything moves by so incredibly fast. I thought that if I make such a long video, it better be feeling like I’m not wasting your time at all - this is why I had so many cuts. And believe me that took eight extra hours of editing alone. I’m actually happy to hear that editing videos at a slower paste will be very welcomed and watched. It will save me so much time! But will definitely be 30-40min long instead of 25min.
Thank you
Your background music is too loud
Was the video still useful though?
Is the music too loud during the whole video? Or only in a few places? Will have the sound lower next time - still learning how to edit
Yes it's too loud for me during the whole video. What is important is what you say and it disturbs your message.
i get it, will definitely consider it for my next videos. i always edit with headphones and i assume that often the balance for speakers can be very different. thank you for your feedback. @@user-nh3br9kl8p
The music in the background is very annoying
Well…. Sorrryyy… I guess?
You can always just not watch it
But thanks for the honest feedback