Guides for musicians going digital
60 practical guides on turning pages without hands, choosing a reader, scanning paper scores, and setting up for your instrument.
Hands-free page turning
- An auto page turner that lives inside your sheet music app
- A Bluetooth page turner alternative with no hardware at all
- Hands-free page turning for musicians
- The page turner app that replaces the pedal
- Page turner pedal vs camera gestures
- Choosing the best page turner for your iPad
- Foot pedals for iPad sheet music, and the alternative
- Blink to turn pages — the mechanics
- Nod and head-shake page turning
- Eye-tracking page turning, without a tracker
- Sheet music that turns itself while you play
- An AirTurn alternative with nothing to charge
Sheet music readers & devices
- A sheet music app built around the page turn
- Choosing a sheet music app for iPad
- A sheet music reader for the iPad on your stand
- A digital music stand you can actually play behind
- Moving your sheet music library to digital
- A music reader app for people who are playing
- A PDF sheet music app that performs
- What a musician needs from a PDF reader
- What you get without paying anything
- Keeping a large sheet music library usable
- A sheet music organizer that does the boring part
- Sheet music on the Mac, for practice and prep
- Sheet music on the iPhone in your pocket
- Setting up an iPad as your music stand
- Which iPad should you buy for sheet music?
- Sheet music on Apple Vision Pro
- A tuner and metronome where the music already is
- An offline-first sheet music app
App comparisons & alternatives
Importing, scanning & annotating
- Scanning paper sheet music that you actually want to read
- Scanning sheet music to PDF, step by step
- Why auto-crop matters more than resolution
- Marking up scores with Apple Pencil
- PDF annotation built for rehearsal speed
- Annotating music, not documents
- From camera roll to performance-ready score
- Metadata is what makes a library searchable
By instrument & situation
- Piano scores, without lifting a hand from the keys
- Guitar tabs you can read while standing up
- Violin parts and the page-turn problem
- Drum charts for players with no spare limb
- Choral scores across a whole section
- Orchestral parts, section markings, and turns in tacet-free passages
- Chord charts, in the order you will play them
- Getting a worship team onto the same page
- Service setlists that reach the whole platform
- For musicians playing four services a month
- One setlist, every member's device
- A setlist is only useful with the music attached
- For teachers who mark up scores every hour
- A practice session with no app switching