So, I'm helping out a mate on Saturday in his function band. They've been let down by their lead singer/rhythm guitarist and I'm jumping into the fray at the last minute. They play all the standard "60s till today" kinda stuff. This includes a lot of songs I've never played or sung before (usual suspects like Mr Brightside, Sex on Fire, Superstition etc etc).
I have little to no time to prepare for this, and so I need a crib-sheet app that can download lyrics and chords for all the tunes. It needs to be easy to read on stage with no extraneous features or buttons all over the place. Just big, clear idiot-proof text with good quality versions that are correct to the original recordings.
Can anyone recommend an iPad app that can do what I need? Or even a website than can output a clean, printable format that will work on A4?
Thanks all!
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I've used Songsheet Pro for about 3 months and found it OK but not doing everything I wanted, so I looked around for something better. I've just moved over to OnSong and think I might have found the winner. One nice thing it does that might help you is it can store/manage/display PDFs that already exist out there. That will help you get some stuff onto your iPad very quickly that you can use straight away.
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Do you know of any websites that have reliably decent formatting that is compatible with OnSong? Otherwise I guess I'll have to do a lot of searching and vetting for each song to find a decent version I can work with.
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as well as chords-above text
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you might need to tell it which format the text is in for each song?
I have found that you almost always need to tidy up text of downloaded/blagged chord/lyric sheets. And some look like they are plain text but aren't so come out odd.
I tried a few of the songbook apps and once you have got your sheets in there, OnSong is the best of the lot imho
If you're editing the songs you store, then I've found that using the "inline" chord approach is best for me. The chords always display above the words when you're reading the sheet, but "inline" makes it easier to edit the song and keep the chords in the right place - esp. if you're using a variable spaced font.
If you want to add some tab in the middle, then you'll need to have a fixed font for the tab section. There are markup codes that you can put either side of the tab and it will display that in fixed font. Use {sot} (start of tab) and {eot} (end of tab).
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It almost made me contemplate getting my own iPad (currently using one from work)...
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