iPad Specs for the Gigging Musician 2024

[Alter]

Good players are probably good at memorizing charts like in everything else. If playing in other people's projects, it's really worth it to take the time to become comfortable in reading charts. Bad charts or no charts is disrespecting the musicians time and very unprofessional.

Here's a typical standards gig I would use charts for (missing a couple of tunes where the camera battery died). I was handed the setlist couple of days before the gig, we did maybe an hour and a half rehearsal without the sax player where I had to play all the heads. Almost no time to work on these over the two days, and six tunes I had never played before, although I had heard all of them. At the gig I could play most of it by memory, but it still was a nice safety net to have. Plus you are going to have a setlist sheet somewhere, might as well be the tablet.

George Kontrafouris Qtet @ Spiti Art Bar 02/2024 - YouTube

Or here's the YouTube list of the tunes I made for "listening" practice. Meaning you practice in the car.

Fouris Spiti - YouTube

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I got 20 bucks that says I take away those charts and one of them three crashes and burns and once you knock one domino over the rest tend to tumble along with them.

I just figured it out, DB. The joke’s on us! You’re not really a nasty, disagreeable dude who thinks that we’re all ignorant, lazy morons and he’s the only one who knows anything. You’re just a curious fun loving guy with a very dry sense of humor who’s tossing out these crude paradoxical insults and misguided criticisms just to see the responses you get.

I just reread your posts in this thread with newfound understanding. Your contributions combine the wit, wisdom, and comic genius of Don Rickles, Mae West, Fred Sanford, and Mort Sahl with the personalities of Belle Barth and Sylvester Q Pussycat. I thank you for entertaining us and apologize for thinking you simply didn’t have a clue.

I laughed for 10 minutes picturing the entire Philadelphia Orchestra falling down like dominoes while playing without the music in front of them. And you definitely stimulated deeper thinking. I then imagined the Pavel Haas Quartet reduced to collective improvisation when a gust of wind blew their scores from their stands.

You’re a comic genius!

[Woody Sound]

We just bought my wife's used/refurb 12.9" ipad from this local co. They were great as far as advice, helping us decide on age/model, etc. And they offer free open-forum classes once a week. They told us the normal sys upgrade life on ipad is ~7yrs. (for ex: 3yrs old, good for four more years.) Security updates can often be done up to 10yrs. Just bought it, so I can't yet comment on usability, software, etc. Her duo partner uses the next smaller one, so he'll teach her.

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[Woody Sound]

Absolutely essential! I had a pickup drummer knock my unprotected iPad off of my music stand, smashing the screen to smithereens.

Oh no, you use an ipad AND a music stand on stage??? Shame!

[FourOnSix]

Oh no, you use an ipad AND a music stand on stage??? Shame!

Happened at rehearsal. No music stand on stage. I clamp my iPad to my mic stand on stage.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

Happened at rehearsal. No music stand on stage. I clamp my iPad to my mic stand on stage.

Here’s what you need to avoid this problem….

[RJVB]

They told us the normal sys upgrade life on ipad is ~7yrs. (for ex: 3yrs old, good for four more years.) Security updates can often be done up to 10yrs.

Yep, that's about the support/update lifetime of iDevices.

Here’s what you need to avoid this problem….

So a drummer would clamp to his non-dominant baton?

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

So a drummer would clamp to his non-dominant baton?

Drummers can read music???

[RJVB]

Drummers can read music???

/methought they have some hieroglyphic notation that's comparable to that shown on the phone in your picture (which doesn't invoke "reading music" to me either)

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

/methought they have some hieroglyphic notation that's comparable to that shown on the phone in your picture (which doesn't invoke "reading music" to me either)

Hmmm. You tend to be more literal in your responses than I do. I didn’t take that picture - it’s the illustration of the device on Amazon. Hanging a phone or tablet on the neck of a guitar sounds really dumb to me, although I’ve been wrong before.

Besides, drummers don’t have to read music. They just stick with it until they get it

[RJVB]

Hmmm. You tend to be more literal in your responses than I do.

You mean it was a joke and I took it serious? I didn't... (and didn't think "your picture" as shorthand for "the picture you posted" was one you took yourself).

But I've seen percussionists play from sheets with relevant symbols printed on them (from which I can read even less music than I can from chord diagrams).

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I've seen percussionists play from sheets with relevant symbols printed on them (from which I can read even less music than I can from chord diagrams).

I've seen thtat too. Our drummer uses this notation:

[RJVB]

So each time he bought somehing at Ikea he arrives with fresh new ideas and licks (or ticks, maybe, for drumming)?

[DawgBone]

I just figured it out, DB. The joke’s on us! You’re not really a nasty, disagreeable dude who thinks that we’re all ignorant, lazy morons and he’s the only one who knows anything. You’re just a curious fun loving guy with a very dry sense of humor who’s tossing out these crude paradoxical insults and misguided criticisms just to see the responses you get.

I just reread your posts in this thread with newfound understanding. Your contributions combine the wit, wisdom, and comic genius of Don Rickles, Mae West, Fred Sanford, and Mort Sahl with the personalities of Belle Barth and Sylvester Q Pussycat. I thank you for entertaining us and apologize for thinking you simply didn’t have a clue.

I laughed for 10 minutes picturing the entire Philadelphia Orchestra falling down like dominoes while playing without the music in front of them. And you definitely stimulated deeper thinking. I then imagined the Pavel Haas Quartet reduced to collective improvisation when a gust of wind blew their scores from their stands.

You’re a comic genius!

So are you good for that 20 spot or not?

[Woody Sound]

/methought they have some hieroglyphic notation that's comparable to that shown on the phone in your picture (which doesn't invoke "reading music" to me either)

X's and O's. Or is that football?

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

So are you good for that 20 spot or not?

Wow! Just when I think you can’t get any funnier, you do it again. My sides hurt from laughing.

[RJVB]

X's and O's. Or is that football?

I hate soccer and know even less about football but you're right that that notation looks like an evolved version of tic-tac-toe

[DawgBone]

Wow! Just when I think you can’t get any funnier, you do it again. My sides hurt from laughing.

You seem angry bro.

[Peter C]

People who get nasty here generally don't play too good, and don't post vids of their playing just to prove it.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

You seem angry bro.

My sense of humor is clearly not well aligned with yours. Given the differences in our beliefs, communication styles, and approaches to pretty much everything else that’s been discussed on JGO, that’s not a surprise. But rest easily, my friend - you evoke many emotions, but anger’s not one of them. It takes too much energy and harshes my mellow.

I never waste energy on things I know I can’t change.

[Jwr]

Question in general:

1. Preferred screen size and why. (is bigger always better?)
.

Hi.

As all other requirements are rather modest compared to what these pads are made for, size is what really matters.
Im using a 14 inch pad, and it’s still barely the size of a paper sheet.

You can deciffer stuff on small screens, but it’s less ( unconcious) work on a bigger one.

[pingu]

My sense of humor is clearly not well aligned with yours. Given the differences in our beliefs, communication styles, and approaches to pretty much everything else that’s been discussed on JGO, that’s not a surprise. But rest easily, my friend - you evoke many emotions, but anger’s not one of them. It takes too much energy and harshes my mellow.

I never waste energy on things I know I can’t change.

well said
Marcus Aurelius rules !

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

well said. Marcus Aurelius rules !

It’s like I always say: How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?

[Bobby Timmons]

It’s like I always say: How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?

I've found, I only want to use anger as motivation to act if I need to defend myself, then try to dissipate it if it's not needed. Don't want to be mad all the time because that's self destructive, and don't want to be wimpy all the time and not defend myself either, cuz that's kind of soul destroying.

[Bobby Timmons]

DawgBone only accepts the best bluezes! And no sheet music or tablets on stage!