Amazing iPad Feature for Musicians | Hands-Free Page Turning Demo

Amazing iPad Feature for Musicians | Hands-Free Page Turning Demo | ForScore Pro Face Gestures

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For the best ForScore experience, you'll want a 2018 iPad Pro (12.9") or newer. You can find compatible models on Amazon: amzn.to/3oNQdhS
ForScore is an awesome sheet music management application for the iPad, which makes the iPad the best tablet for musicians, in my opinion. This is especially true with the release of the ForSore Pro page turning feature, which uses face gestures and the facial recognition ability of the TrueDepth camera (available on some iPad models).
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@luccielectone395 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the demo..So cool. 😊

@wimorse Жыл бұрын

Great Video! Thank you. I'll give it a try

@tubeiferous Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such helpful info. Looking for your other videos now.

@chaplainmattsanders4884 29 күн бұрын

Very helpful! Amazing feature.

@guitargod6997 Жыл бұрын

Excellent review of this set up and lovely playing! Thanks for the pro tip!

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@danmorrison8194 7 ай бұрын

This feature and the 1/2 page turn are great options. I play the double bass and I find that I still need a pedal because of where I need the music stand to see the other players or the conductor but I’ll use the gestures at home practicing.

@nantschev 2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t knew this feature. Will try ASAP

@davidnace1959 Жыл бұрын

The title of the video got my attention, but your artistry with Brahms was by far the coolest thing about it. Thank you!

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying that!

@AndallJackson-et9ls 4 ай бұрын

thanks for the video! just what i needed for my piano videos!!❤❤❤

@FlexLessons 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@Aerospace_Education 26 күн бұрын

Didn't know this existed. Super happy to have found your video. Just tried it and it's fantastic. Don't have to worry about a Bluetooth turner now. Works great in my situation.

@FlexLessons 26 күн бұрын

It's such a nice solution to page turning. I am glad you discovered it!

@Homan48 6 ай бұрын

The iPad app called KeyScore will use the iPad’s mic to listen to you play and turn the page for you. As of 2024/01 was free.

@downpatmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Hey that works well.

@DenScan Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this great video. I've been looking for something like this and it felt like I found the holy grail! I just bought forScore and upgraded to Pro so I could use the facial gestures -- the mouth movement gesture works great for me right out of the box, although as you said it will take a bit of practice to internalize that. You mentioned that you're planning on doing a video at some point explaining ForScore generally -- as a newbie to the app I sure would love to see that. Thanks again! (PS -- I just subscribed to your channel and looking forward to checking out your other videos.)

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I do still plan to do a ForScore walkthrough at some point.

@DenScan Жыл бұрын

@@FlexLessons That's great news -- much appreciated! I'm subscribed to your channel, so I'll hear about it once you release it. I've been adding my scores to forScore and it's going well, but there's a lot to learn. Sometimes it's hard to find how to do something that seems like it should be a no brainer. I'm about to edit my first score that contains multiple repeats with a DS and Coda, so we'll see how that goes. Definitely a very cool concept! I'm so happy with this program...

@debrajean740 11 ай бұрын

That is so cool! My luck I'd get an itch ;)

@FlexLessons 11 ай бұрын

Haha...it takes some practice to control the page turning well.

@martinbucki5607 Жыл бұрын

Buenas tardes. Podría ayudarme diciéndome que modelos de Ipad Pro 12.9 son compatibles con los cambios de página con gestos faciales? Desde ya muchas gracias y felicitaciones por su gran trabajo. Saludos.

@FlexLessons 11 ай бұрын

Cualquier iPad Pro después de 2018, así como los nuevos iPad Air. No estoy seguro de si hay otros.

@budiprabowo5979 Жыл бұрын

Great video, and this puzzled me why ForScore Pro can do such excellent thing. Then I found it not because of ForScore. It is in the Ipad itself, called Accessibility. We have it already without ForScore. Ipad installed it for the handicapped. And because most of us are normal, we don't even feel the need to look into this feature. Accessibility - Switches and Recipes.

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Wow! Didn’t know that. Regardless, I am happy to support the ForScore folks.

@cameronpeterson1175 Жыл бұрын

budiprabowo5979, can you describe a little bit better how to utilize this feature with switches and recipes? I don't have an ipad pro 12.9 but am looking into it for sheet music. Can you use another gesture like winking?

@billligon4005 Жыл бұрын

Please explain "AUTO TURN" for Fourscore?? Set the pages to turn based on your playing speed of the piece???

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

This video is actually dedicated to explaining this...I am using a face gesture (moving my mouth slightly) and the camera on the iPad recognizes this and turns the page.

@suzleslie1 2 жыл бұрын

I have a 2018 iPad which has the high depth camera but I cannot get the score to go to portrait view and since it’s a 9 in screen, I can’t read it in landscape format. Does this mean I need to buy a 12 in iPad?

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

The 9 inch screen shouldn't be interfering with the portrait view. Double tap your main screen in the center and play with the view options until it displays portrait mode properly.

@jeffjensen27 Жыл бұрын

So I Am Guessing That The Camera Is Aimed At You & The Slightest movement Triggers The Page Turn?

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Yep although you can choose how sensitive it is. I play very reliably without a page turner using this feature.

@kennethblatt 2 жыл бұрын

Hi: Thank you for that. Very interesting. My question is, I am a singer/pianist so my mouth is moving all the time as I sing the words of songs that I am playing. Would those mouth movements initiate turning a page? Thank you, Ken

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

Good question. It depends on how animated you are, how sensitive the calibration is (which you can choose), and how good the lighting is. If I was singing a lot, I may be tempted to not use this feature.

@kennethblatt 2 жыл бұрын

@@FlexLessons Thanks for replying.

@johne1599 2 жыл бұрын

How are you jumping when you encounter repeats, D.S. al Coda, etc.?

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

That may be a situation where you need to use a button link to go to where you want. Alternatively, if you must be hands off, you can duplicate pages so that the piece can be front to back with repeats built in. I have made use of both of these suggestions.

@KyleHohn 2 жыл бұрын

Do you still use the Logitech Brio overhead? Mine is quite warped in comparison to yours if you do. It has an exaggerated fisheye effect on mine. Maybe it’s a bootleg? Or any tips?

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

I do! I have my camera on 78 degree mode, which gets rid of that effect. You can do that through the Logitech camera software (might be called “Tune” now).

@KyleHohn 2 жыл бұрын

@@FlexLessons thank you! I also had the keyboard positioned towards the edge of the camera which had more warping. Now that I’ve centered it, the warping is gone

@vassilnachev4058 Жыл бұрын

Hello :) My quesiton is can i join two ipads and someone backstage turn the pages for me from the second one? Thank you very much

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

I believe you can join two iPads together using forScore but I am not sure about the remote page turning.

@raisingmocha Жыл бұрын

What are you using for your overhead shot? Just curious

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

In this case, I am using a Logitech Brio.

@danoslehoy Жыл бұрын

Que programa similar hay para Windows y Android ?

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

No creo que haya uno (I don't think there is one.)

@AdrianEarnshawMusic Жыл бұрын

I found the mouth gestures didn't always work, especially in a darkened organ loft. I changed the gesture to a wink and it works perfectly.

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

The wink option is new to me! The lighting does need to be good for the mouth gestures to work well.

@DenScan Жыл бұрын

Ummm, wink gestures? There's no information at all about wink gestures in forScore. Can you elaborate?

@AdrianEarnshawMusic Жыл бұрын

@@DenScan When you calibrate the mouth gesture, just wink instead. Wink with your right eye to turn page forward, then your left to turn page back. Although it is billed as mouth gesture, you can use any facial move. I hit on this by accident, and it works very well for my use case.

@DenScan Жыл бұрын

@@AdrianEarnshawMusic That is ***SO*** cool! Going to try that right now. Thanks so much!

@AdrianEarnshawMusic Жыл бұрын

@@DenScan if you cannot get it to work, let me know and I will see if I can put some instructions together.

@austintone Жыл бұрын

What if an accidental page turn is triggered and you want to quickly go back to the page you were on?

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

You just signal in the opposite direction.

@davidpatrick1813 2 ай бұрын

Nice. You have other forScore and watching…. I am frustrated

@FlexLessons 2 ай бұрын

Why are you frustrated?

@suzleslie1 2 жыл бұрын

I have a iPad Pro 15.4 . Is that sufficient for the Forscore app?

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much any iPad can run the app. However, you have to have an iPad that has the True Depth camera to get the facial gesture based page turning. If you have a 2018 iPad Pro or newer, you likely have it.

@suzleslie1 2 жыл бұрын

I tried working with the options . No go. I want to be sure before I shell out $. For a 12 inch. Is the support at Forscore good about answering questions?

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

@@suzleslie1 yes they are good. My wife has a 9 inch iPad and it works great for her, even in portrait.

@danculp4057 11 ай бұрын

What type of piano is that? I love the sound!

@FlexLessons 11 ай бұрын

This is a Yamaha U3. I’m glad you like the sound!

@danculp4057 11 ай бұрын

@@FlexLessons i kinda guessed! My favorite brand👍

@FlexLessons 11 ай бұрын

I use a Yamaha C3 now, which is quite a step up! @@danculp4057

@bubbaXzone Жыл бұрын

hi i got a 2018 ipad pro 12.9 and for some reason all of a sudden the load time when i start of the app is like 30 seconds frozen screen before i can use or click anything on forscore. any idea how to fix it? I restarted ipad, updated ipad, updated forscore, restarted ipad again same problem persist.

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Hmm...have you tried reinstalling Forscore? You might want to reach out to them, especially of that is the only app that is doing that.

@bubbaXzone Жыл бұрын

@@FlexLessons i did! I contacted support! Im afraid if reinstall it i lose all my sheets. I got my back up files but not sure how it works and if it jusy boots up wat i got now

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

You need to make a backup with an archive. Look on their site for information on how to do that.

@bubbaXzone Жыл бұрын

@@FlexLessons is that creating a back up and saving it on my googledrive? Does that work?

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

@@bubbaXzone You can save it where ever you want...but you must create an archive (not a backup) to protect your sheet music files.

@bh5606 9 ай бұрын

Does it turn pages vertically or horizontally?

@FlexLessons 9 ай бұрын

However you have the pages arranged, it will turn them.

@bh5606 9 ай бұрын

@@FlexLessons Good...

@PassionPno 2 жыл бұрын

iPad air doesn't have truedepth camera.

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

You are right! I didn’t realize that.

@mattparksmusic Жыл бұрын

I just realized I close one eye sometimes when I play LOL oops

@FlexLessons Жыл бұрын

Haha. So maybe the eye thing won’t work for you!

@BenSadounJeremie 5 ай бұрын

I’ve just bought forScore pro to test this option. This is very risky and too sensitive for me. It changes the pages when undesired also. Imagine being inspired by the music and the machine reacts to your unconscious face movements. It s no for me eventually.

@FlexLessons 5 ай бұрын

You can adjust the sensitivity but keep in mind it works best in good lighting. It took a bit of practice to get this to the point where I could rely on it in public, and since I am usually using an organ with pedals, this was my only alternative to having someone turn pages or have music posted up all over the music rack. With that said, I totally understand your hesitation. Thanks for the comment.

@BenSadounJeremie 5 ай бұрын

@@FlexLessons I understand but I’ve been practicing the page turns till today even and It totally disturbs my concentration and inspiration. I think this can be adequate for calm pieces but not for virtuosic pieces. I am currently playing Iberia and these pieces are too complicated to be able to think of two things at the same time. Anyway, thanks for the review though.

@FlexLessons 5 ай бұрын

I agree with that. In fact, virtuosic pieces should be memorized. This is better for working on music such as chamber music or things used in church settings.

@BenSadounJeremie 5 ай бұрын

@@FlexLessons totally. I just wanted a tool to feel secure but in fact the truth is that one must rely on oneself.

@Oleg__ 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would like to see more videos about forScore 13, as I did not upgrade to this version myself, as I did not like everything there. I would like to see if the features in Settings > Gestures have changed. Have they added gestures and additional actions for them etc. And also what the application looks like if you open two instances of the application side by side in Split View mode. They say that the secondary window in this mode has received a completely new design.

@FlexLessons 2 жыл бұрын

I will do a video at some point soon explaining ForScore generally, and if I get a chance, some of the features added in 13. In my opinion, version 13 wasn’t that big of a change for me. I haven’t yet looked into the gestures. The side by side feature is cool, but seems mostly intended for use on the Mac with a second monitor. I wouldn’t use it at all on the 11 inch iPad; however, the 12.9 inch iPad might work well, depending on how your music is laid out. You can also use the second window as a separate full screen instance of ForScore, but it doesn’t have access to all of the same features (no set lists for example). The secondary window can search and do some basic things, and it has the same view settings, but it doesn’t function as a second copy of the app.

@lawrencediggs7957 17 күн бұрын

Just say no to subscription software.

@FlexLessons 16 күн бұрын

I actually don't mind developers supporting themselves through small subscriptions like this.

@lawrencediggs7957 16 күн бұрын

@@FlexLessons It is the very idea of renting what you should own. Serfdom should be minimized if not eliminated in a free, capitalist society. That said, I see they offer a purchase version, albeit a dumbed down version.

@FlexLessons 16 күн бұрын

@lawrencediggs7957 I totally get that. Many companies are abusing this. However, continued development is required for software to continue to work with major OS releases, and without some sort of sub or fee, devs would have to work for free to keep things working, which is sort of like “serfdom in reverse”.

@lawrencediggs7957 16 күн бұрын

@@FlexLessons When they fix their mistakes problems with their work, updates, that should be free. If they add new features they should make it a chargeable upgrade purchase.