Re: Google Play, what is it any good for?
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:36 pm
I'm a young whippersnapper, but I don't want to blow all my money on apps, either. I've bought a handful of games, but there were some apps I just had to have. You may or may not need them in your gigging setup, but here you go:
1.) iReal Pro: A digital fakebook reader. You have to download the song packs, and this app has saved my rear on genres of all types.
2.) MobileSheets Pro: "ForScore" for Android. You can make PDFs of your music and organize them into a tablet. Not a "must-have" if you're not a technophile, but man, do I love never having to worry about grabbing the wrong book any more. Or flipping pages. Or stand lights. Or extra weight of a big book. I now use it on over 90% of my gigs; the only ones I won't go out of my way for are ones where the stand lights are controlled by FOH.
3.) iGigBook: Much like MobileSheets, but not as good. But there is one priceless feature for jazz musicians, though: If you own a pdf copy of your fakebooks, it already has the pages of close to 100 of them catalogued. So all you have to do is load the file, tell the app which book it is, and you can search for tunes like Google.
As for movies, you can rent or buy. The prices will reflect one or the other. I'm not sure if you can do this through Google Play, but you might try to buy a subscription of Netflix first.
1.) iReal Pro: A digital fakebook reader. You have to download the song packs, and this app has saved my rear on genres of all types.
2.) MobileSheets Pro: "ForScore" for Android. You can make PDFs of your music and organize them into a tablet. Not a "must-have" if you're not a technophile, but man, do I love never having to worry about grabbing the wrong book any more. Or flipping pages. Or stand lights. Or extra weight of a big book. I now use it on over 90% of my gigs; the only ones I won't go out of my way for are ones where the stand lights are controlled by FOH.
3.) iGigBook: Much like MobileSheets, but not as good. But there is one priceless feature for jazz musicians, though: If you own a pdf copy of your fakebooks, it already has the pages of close to 100 of them catalogued. So all you have to do is load the file, tell the app which book it is, and you can search for tunes like Google.
As for movies, you can rent or buy. The prices will reflect one or the other. I'm not sure if you can do this through Google Play, but you might try to buy a subscription of Netflix first.