Those of you who follow my blog may have seen my YouTube tutorial and blog post demonstrating how to index long PDF files in the forScore app on iPad.
I realized earlier this week that I had never moved my Christmas fake books to my iPad and figured it was worth a start. In the past, I found pre-existing CSV indexes from the user forums but today I manually added the song titles inside of the forScore app. Fortunately there is a new (?) button inside of the bookmarks menu called Index that offers to look for a table of contents inside of your pdf and guess some of the song titles and pages numbers for you. This worked well! I had to go in and fix a few things but overall it was a good start.
Of course, I want to practice over the changes of these songs so I pulled up my favorite jazz practice workflow on iPad — sliding iReal Pro into split view — so I could see the chords and play along to practice tracks. Turns out someone on the iReal Pro user forums has made play-alongs for most of the Christmas Real Book that you can download into your library. Here is the link.
Happy Holidays and enjoy!
The automatic Index button in action.
Songs are now searchable by title!
Running forScore and iReal Pro side by side in split view.