Dan Lewis // A Pro Musicians Guide To Using forScore [In Depth Walk Through]
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My in depth walk through of the musical software program "forScore"
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CHAPTERS;
INTRODUCTION - 00:00-01:40
WHAT YOU'LL NEED - 01:41-02:06
UPLOADING CHARTS - 02:07-05:00
RENAMING // LABELLING CHARTS - 05:01-07:50
ALL SCORES FUNCTIONS - 07:51-10:45
CHART SETTINGS AND OPTIONS - 10:46-13:40
BOOKMARKS - 13:41-14:52
OTHER FUNCTIONS ON THE TOP BAR - 14:53-15:44
METRONOME // TUNER // PITCH - 15:45-18:59
EDIT THIS SCORE [BRIEFCASE] - 19:00-19:10
MORE [PIANO // RECORD // CUE // DASHBOARD // SYNC // BACKUP // SUPPORT // SETTINGS] - 19:11-23:58
LINKS - 23:59-26:58
BUTTONS - 26:59-28:50
REARRANGE - 28:51-30:16
CROP - 30:17-31:32
SHARE - 31:33- 31:44
ADD SCORES [STORE // SERVICES // SCAN // TEMPLATES] - 31:45-38:35
SKIP AHEAD MASS PAGES ON THE CHART - 38:36-39:49
SETLISTS [HOW TO CREATE SETLISTS // HOW TO ADD SONGS TO SETLISTS // HOW TO CREATE SETLIST FOLDER // HOW TO ADD PLACEHOLDERS] - 39:50-45:21
ANNOTATE [STAMPS] - 45:22-49:35
ANNOTATE [SHAPES] - 49:36-53:00
ANNOTATE [PEN SETTING // HOW TO CREATE HIGHLIGHTERS // CHANGE COLOURS ETC.] - 53:01-54:49
ANNOTATE [RULER] - 54:50-55:55
ANNOTATE [COPY PASTE] - 55:56-57:56
ANNOTATE [WORDS] - 57:58-58:33
ANNOTATE [RUBBER] - 58:34-58:44
ANNOTATE [MASS CLEAR] - 58:45-59:02
ANNOTATE [LAYERS] - 59:03-1:00:20
OUTRO - 1:00:20-1:01:41
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@Marykellogg Жыл бұрын
Hallelujah!! Finally someone who really delivers on hat the working musician needs!!!! Thank you!
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Just trying to help haha
@joerandel5185 11 ай бұрын
Super helpful. Just got an iPad & forScore and this saved me loads of time getting up and running. Thanks so much!
@DanLewisDrums 11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much mate for watching and commenting. So glad it could help you out!
@paulpaul00 2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. Perfect presentation of all features. Thank you for doing this!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Paul! Thank you so much mate. This is amazing, so glad it’s helped!
@michael_harren 2 жыл бұрын
15 minutes into this video and you’ve already revolutionized how I use forScore! So many things I was doing in such a slow way, and then the things I never even bothered to learn. Magnificent thorough video! Thanks for taking the time to make this!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Mate!!! Thank you so much for commenting and for your lovely words. Makes me feel great that it’s useful and is actually helping people. Made my day ✌🏻
@michael_harren 2 жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums Of course! There's one thing you missed, which you may have figured out already: that "sync" option under the toolbox allows you to turn on "sync with iCloud" which allows you to keep a perfect copy of your forScore library. So for example I have it turned on so at anytime I could open forScore on my iMac, sync it to my cloud copy and have the exact set up on my iMac. Or say you want to have a second iPad as a backup, you can have it always synced to your main library so you can seamlessly switch between devices. It's pretty brilliant!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
@@michael_harren amazing!! Thanks for the tip bro!!
@drumbumunited Жыл бұрын
@@michael_harren Thanks for this addition. Just sync'd too 👍🏻
@davidswerdlove4116 2 жыл бұрын
Great walk through -- moves along great, is nicely detailed and organized -- the definitive everything I needed to know..." video!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much David, it’s really kind of you to comment and watch. I really appreciate it!
@B-Hathaway Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this amazing video! I’ve been using forScore for years for concert readings of new musicals, and it’s been a godsend. My one wish is that they allow moving bulk pages in the rearrange tool, in addition to individual pages. With new shows there are constant rewrites, and being able to move a bunch of pages at one time to a particular place in the full document would be extremely helpful.
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this lovely comment! And for taking the time to watch the vid. It’s the best app out there in my opinion. Yeah that would be a great feature. I believe it’s a small team that run the program so it could be worth asking them?
@berylbye4093 7 ай бұрын
thank you so much for taking the time to do this walk through. much appreciated!
@DanLewisDrums 6 ай бұрын
Thank you! So glad it was helpful!
@MichaelDonley-qz5fw 11 ай бұрын
Crazy useful! I had no idea what i was missing in my ForScore. Thank you!
@DanLewisDrums 11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much Michael! So glad you found it useful.
@Oleg__ 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a thorough review of forScore. I've watched it till the "Bookmarks" section, I'll take a break and then I'll continue watching. In the meantime, some comments on what I watched: 4:48 - There is no need to scroll up as hard, since you can just tap at the very top of the screen. 5:42 - I, too, have long since renamed the "Composers" field to "Artist(s)". I'm surprised that originally forScore didn't even offer such a field. 10:09 - Or just long tap on the item (chart) and select "Clone" in the context menu. It's easier that way. 12:55 - Half-page turns is a very handy feature when you have some complicated passage that is between different pages. And for practicing such passages, it's very convenient: you don't have to keep flipping back and forth to learn the passage. Also, the position of this dividing line can be adjusted manually.
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Oleg! Thanks so much for the comment and for taking the time to watch. Thank you for the notes too! Super helpful
@maddog3428 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this in-depth walkthrough! I’m a piano teacher and I had discovered some of these things by accident, but you gave me a lot of additional valuable information that will make my life easier. BTW, I had no idea that the coverup and measure stamps were there. I had been trying to erase with a white pen and draw staff lines with the ruler and a skinny black pen. My OCD self thanks you 😂
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
This is such a lovely comment! Thank you for taking the time to write. Firstly, I was exactly the same as you haha, I stumbled into half the things I speak about until I finally sat down and trial and errored every single button, before making a list of the most important and practical things. Consider it a gift from one OCD Muso to another haha!
@brandonjohnson8082 2 жыл бұрын
This was extremely informative. I just got an Ipad and this helped me a lot. Thank you
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Awh this is so kind of you to say! It’s literally the only reason I did it is because I know how important it is people get to grips with this program and just try to help make that slightly easier. This made me smile today, so thank you, and good luck!
@lindsaygroves9188 2 жыл бұрын
Thank, Dan! This has given me courage!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you Lindsay. I promise it gets easier when you use it a lot
@franklyvulgar1 2 жыл бұрын
great walkthrough thank you Dan bravo
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Chris, thank you very very much! So glad you found it useful!
@astaab1994 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Very informative and helpful!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey thank you so much!
@MiniatureViolinist Жыл бұрын
This is so so useful. Thank you soooo much!!
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you! So glad it was helpful
@carlog.gutierrez3564 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir such an a helpful content.. more power & Godbless
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks bro ✌🏻
@eulman09 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the perfect forScore walk through! They should hire you and pay you for this service.
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Mate! Thank you so much for those lovely comments! Just wanted to create a user friendly version as I couldn’t find one online, so I’m so happy to see it’s helping.
@jefersontorres Жыл бұрын
Oh! What an amazing tutorial! I´m sure Mr. Dan Lewis must be a great drummer, like... a metronome!! Hope some day we can jam together.
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
My brother! Haha. Yes 100% we’ll jam together one day again. I hope you’re well my friend!
@ADDG880 10 ай бұрын
Amazing, thank you for this!
@DanLewisDrums 10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@JulieBluestoneMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent, thank you~
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ChrisHaas1 6 сағат бұрын
Thanks so much for creating that amazing video! I used to be a drummer and band leader on cruise ships for a couple of years in the early 90s and this would’ve saved me a lot of time. I just picked up an iPad and forScore and have started using it using it for the different types of gigs that I’m currently doing. I hope you’re having a good time out there and getting some time to practice. I remember on the ships that I played on I could rarely practice because the showrooms were used during the day for buffets. Can you imagine being out at sea without any Internet or any cell phones? I love your British accent and the constant swearing that every real musician does! Do you use a Bluetooth pedal for page turns or just do them with your hand? Thanks again and take care.
@janicegerman9133 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your experience with ForScore. I’m 80 years old and could understand some of what you are saying. I wish you could talk a little slower though. I’m American and it’s sometimes difficult to pick up British words.
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the comment! And apologies for the speed of talking, us brits have a knack of doing that! If it helps, I believe you can turn on auto captions in the settings on the video. Which will give you subtitles
@janicegerman9133 Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums thanks for your reply. I forwarded your introduction video to the drummer in our band. I’m encouraging him to get ForScore. I love the app. Just started with it about 4 months ago. Can’t figure out links and need to use it badly. Have any tips?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Go to 23:59 and it should cover everything you need to know about how to use them! Thanks again for your kind words and for passing on the vid!
@meisenman 27 күн бұрын
You can slow down the speed of a video in KZfaq: Click/tap the gear icon in the upper-right of the screen and select Playback Speed. Then click/tap Normal and select the speed ratio from the list.
@Oleg__ 2 жыл бұрын
30:29 - This is a handy thing. It adjusts the sensitivity when you use two fingers to zoom in/out for the right crop. Choose the turtle and you have to move your fingers a lot, so it makes it easy to make fine adjustments. Choose the rabbit, and with just a little finger spread, you get a crazy response to the movement of your fingers. P.S. I also work on cruise ships (not musician yet). I'm still at home, though, and I'm not sure if I'll be back anytime soon. And you, as I understand it, are on Mardi Gras. Probably you know the bass guitar player from Ukraine. His name is Oleg. He was there before the new year. Got to set-lists. I'm going to take a break again.
@nayazhitsofficial6611 2 жыл бұрын
thanks to your info bro
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching bro!
@jimlambie5419 2 жыл бұрын
Love this app!! Great info here! I recently ran into issues using the Undo button... if I have a lot annotations on a chart, hitting Undo can screw up all my work making things disappear and become a hassle to try to fix. So I've got in the habit of avoiding the Undo option and use Erase instead. Have you run into this? Forscore responded to my first attempt to resolve this but have not followed up with the questions I answered.
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Jim! Thanks so much for watching and for the comment and subscription! Yeah I do get the same problem, I can only undo so many times. Something maybe they need to look into. Overall I love the app though!
@anezabala485 2 жыл бұрын
Nice video mate
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@mattduffy863 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant vid
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Matt, so glad it could help! Enjoy your weekend bud
@mattduffy863 Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums you really did help. Gave me loads of ideas. I have a question though not sure if the app can do it. I have set up a Siri shortcut that asks me to choose a chart from a list and then asks me to pick a song from that chart. It then opens the chart in an app called DEVONthink. This saves me having to find the right page in a book. Is there anyway to do this in Forscore do you know?
@alexvesper7995 10 ай бұрын
After painstakingly entering the lengths of all the titles, I would be interested in how I can display the length of a set list. As an example, a set can be 50 minutes long, which titles make the most sense.
@zlee7578 Жыл бұрын
so fucking good bro! Really appreciate it
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Haha!! Thank you so much!! So glad you loved it
@thysaxo Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 🙏👏👍🇫🇷🎷
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Thanks so much for watching, I'm glad it could help!
@drumbumunited Жыл бұрын
There's nothing else like this online (that I could find) that goes into so much detail for drummers, so thanks for a fantastic walk-through! I've watched some of your other video's too, which have all been really useful. Particularly the colour-coding on charts👌 Quick question: When writing your own chart using the manuscript template, Forscore seems to pick-up on the ledger lines and start filling in extra's and drawing other random lines and going a bit crazy? Have you come across this or know a work-around? cheers
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Ahaha thank you so much mate I really appreciate that! It sounds like your app is like glitching or has bugs. Update the app in the App Store, or update your iPad then the app, or uninstall and reinstall that’s the only thing I can think of mate!
@debbiejaap8389 Күн бұрын
How do you print scores from forScore.?
@billligon4005 Жыл бұрын
I;ve been recording my playing using the item in the 'annotation' section. But I record icon cover part of the last line of the music. How do I move it out of the way??
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
The only solution I can think of mate is to simply zoom in slightly so it moves the recording box out of the bar. As I also found I couldn’t move the recording box. Hope this helps!!
@hilberian 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Dan Thanky for the great Video! I skiped a lil through the video and saw parts of it. How do you skip pages as a drummer while playing. Do you have any experiences with page flip tools? Sorry if i asked something you already mentionded. Thanx and greatings
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Great to hear from you, it’s a great question and definitely one I had before I began too. There are page flipping tools like Bluetooth pedals and stuff. You can also do it through forscore under the “metronome” section. But tbh, I do it myself. I physically tap the next page, which is difficult at first but you definitely get used to it and where the best places to turn are! It’s all trial and error my friend.
@hilberian 2 жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums thanks, yeah ill try. Thank you and continue posting!
@thestrictlynoparking Жыл бұрын
Hi, many thanks for the video. Is there a method to cut lines and move them to a new place? I ask as in some classical guitar pieces you have both standard notation and tab music, I find it best to “white out” the tab part but then move the normal notation up to make for less page turns. I hope you follow my logic - any thoughts would be most welcome
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Hey! On pre-existing lines on the actual score I don’t believe you can. But if you draw over the top of them and white over anything you want to change that usually works as you can freely move anything you’ve drawn in. Hope that helps!
@thestrictlynoparking Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums thanks. I struggle to make use of the cut and paste function - I thought that may do it.
@thestrictlynoparking Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums just checked the details in Google and cut and paste requires the annual subscription! This I will have to pay as it is something I will use a lot. Really expected this to be part of the standard software. Hey ho, that’s life!
@marcosrosamusic 2 жыл бұрын
Hello friend, I use Forscore and I'm really enjoying it. Do you know if it has night mode function? To leave the background black and the letter white?
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Hey bro! So I haven’t looked into that, but I just googled it and this is what it says on the official forScore site; “While forScore doesn’t have a “night mode”, iOS has an “invert screen” feature that may help. If you open the Settings app, under General, choose Accessibility. At the bottom of that panel, set the Accessibility Shortcut option to “Invert Colors” (in iOS 11 or later there are two options: Classic Invert Colors and Smart Invert Colors). Then, when using forScore, triple-click on the Home button on your device and it will invert the colors of the screen, setting white text on a black background.” Hope that helps!
@marcosrosamusic 2 жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums Hi friend, thanks for getting back. I went to the settings and the general tab does not show Accessibility, is it only in the Forscore Pro version? There's an "Others" tab that has accessibility, but this color change function doesn't appear. Still, thanks for the attention.
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Ahh okay mate good to know anyway! Hope you’re enjoying the tutorial all the same!
@georgeharteman4083 Жыл бұрын
Great Dan very helpful. diolch
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much George!
@billligon4005 Жыл бұрын
If I'm on a bus or train I would like to view FOURSCORE music on my Iphone, can that be done?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
“forScore is a universal app, so you only have to buy it once to be able to run it on up to ten of your own personal devices-iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Just make sure you’re using the same AppleID on each device, then download and install it from the App Store” - that’s straight from the forscore website!
@bshubo Жыл бұрын
thanks! - can a leader send individual parts to each musician or can everyone only view the same sheet of music?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
I think [if I understand the question correctly] yes! If the band leader has everyone’s individual charts he can just airdrop them to each person in turn! Hope that helps! And thanks for watching
@bshubo Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums actually i can't find a way to do what i would like - live wedding band where leader calls up the next tune to play ( like in a medley with 10 or 20 tunes one after the other) - when the leader call up for example " superstition" on his ipad, his ipad will have the piano part while the tenor player will get the tenor part, etc. (unreal book can do this)- hope i was clear - thanks
@KentaroxKondo 2 жыл бұрын
I downloaded a song book that contains more than 100 songs and saved it on forScore as one PDF file. But considering the situation where I need to make a set list that includes different songs from that book, should I save each song as one individual PDF?
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
I would say so yeah, if that’s gonna become a situation for you where you’ll need the individual scores separate.
@KentaroxKondo 2 жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums Thanks for your advice! I didn’t want to believe that because it’s such a hassle but now I made up my mind to import them separately😂 I’ll watch this video again and again. It’s really informative and helpful!
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
@@KentaroxKondo haha I’ve been there! It will be worth it I promise. Thank you so much for the support and comments!
@88-fingers79 2 жыл бұрын
No reason to do so. In the newer versions of ForScore you can add an index to a score. These can then act as both bookmarks as well as individual scores (title vs page function). Many real book indexes are available on line and can just be imported.
@Tonyd5996 2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Most informative video and useful for first time foreScore users. However, there is not and I don’t think ever had been a version for Android. It is purely for Apple.
@DanLewisDrums 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Anthony! Yeah someone told me afterwards 😂 only me. Should’ve done my research on that one, thank you though! Really glad you enjoyed it
@craigwalkner7554 Жыл бұрын
Great to see a fellow drummer rocking out. Couple questions: What is your go-to source for drum charts? Do you have any recommendations for notation software if I want to write out some drum beats, etc, via the pencil (and possibly have it convert into "real" sheet music notation - or can FS do this as well)?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Thanks bro! I actually recently did a whole hour long video about that exact topic. It’s called “where to find drum charts”, but in short, google is my best friend when it comes to that 😂 In the bio section I’ve listed like 20 websites I use though. I don’t know of any current software that translates hand written stuff to notes, but I think Tim Buell has done a whole free series on KZfaq for writing software and stuff! Hopefully that helps bro.
@craigwalkner7554 Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums Thanks Dan!
@craigwalkner7554 Жыл бұрын
One other question - when scanning drum books, FS limits each scan to 24 pages, whereas I have to save it and then scan the other pages, then merge it and it's frustrating as heck. Does FS Pro not have these limitations and/or is there a workaround for this? I can't find anything in the FS Pro documentation about expanding to unlimited pages or whatever so I'm guessing it still caps you at 24 pages...?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
@@craigwalkner7554 No bud I don’t think so as I also have to scan 24 pages at a time and then merge them too. Hopefully one day they’ll make it available to scan unlimited pages. That would be so helpful
@craigwalkner7554 Жыл бұрын
@@DanLewisDrums Groovy - thanks for your reply! Hopefully they will add that feature.
@danoslehoy Жыл бұрын
Does something similar come for Windows and/or Android ?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Mobile Sheet Pro is what my trumpet player on ships is using right now
@KahimoandRachel Жыл бұрын
can i use a guitar chords instead of piano or organ chords?,,cheers mate
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Sorry mate I don’t understand the question?
@TheStoneblogs Жыл бұрын
fuckin class
@Jeep20220 2 ай бұрын
Bonjour merci pour ces explications mais c’est trop compliqué Je vais chercher une application beaucoup plus simple bonne journée
@deborahdey2003 Жыл бұрын
What if anything happens to iPad? Is there backup?
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Hey, check the chapter on backups. But also yeah if you back it up, and something happens to your iPad you should be able to retrieve it on another one using the same log ins etc
@deborahdey2003 Жыл бұрын
So your forScore app with all your music can be accessed from a other iPad?
@dgrjazz 2 ай бұрын
Nothing about indexes?
@tangobasso 8 ай бұрын
No chapter on midi? 😭
@DanLewisDrums 6 ай бұрын
My really good friend @onlinedrumstudio has done one!
@johnarneson5057 Жыл бұрын
Still doesn’t show how to go from MacBook to iPad
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
In what context john?
@billligon4005 Жыл бұрын
I returned to Apple because of this app, which is not available on Android.
@DanLewisDrums Жыл бұрын
Honestly mate I love this app so much and it’s so good for what we need it for, I’d have done the same.