I use ForScore as my music-reading app -- I have scanned all the pages
from the teacher's book for Accent on Achievement (both books 1 and 2)
and created a separate PDF file for each page in the students' books --
for example my file Accent1-10.pdf has the pages from the teacher's book
that have all the songs and other information the students have on their
page 10. When we start working on separate pieces, then I scan the
score of the piece into a PDF file. I have all these files (and
thousands more for my own personal practice and performance) loaded into
ForScore, and so I no longer bring 2 very large teacher's books to my
band classes, I simply bring my iPad.
Additionally, I've created a spreadsheet in Numbers to keep track of
attendance and payment issues (the students pay me directly for
participating in the band classes -- I don't get paid by the school).
This has allowed me to stop carrying a notebook for tracking such things.
Thus all I bring with me each morning to band class is my iPad and my
baton -- the school I teach band at doesn't have a music room so we
rehearse in the library, all before school starts each morning. There
used to be a band room but they needed an additional classroom due to
increasing enrollment, so the regular school music teacher has her desk
and supplies in a corner of the hallway, tucked under a stairway, and I
have no place to store anything.
The iPad has made things very much easier each morning!
David H. Bailey
On 11/19/2011 10:14 AM, Jerry Jankura wrote:
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> Hi, David:
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> Could you comment more on how you use the iPad in your band classes.
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> On Nov 19, 2011, at 8:30 AM, iPad@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> I, too, live with my iPad by my side, and use it in my band classes at a
>> local Catholic elementary school, use it in my personal music
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> Thanks,
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> Jerry Jankura
> Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to
> the utterly bewildered - Al Capp
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
