How to Scan and Import Sheet Music into iPad

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Күн бұрын

In my last video, I talked about how I use my iPad and page turning pedals for my performance, practicing, and teaching. If you haven't watched it, please check it out:
• How to Use iPad and Pe...
In this video, I'm showing how I can scan and import your sheet music into iPad. This method can also be used for scanning other documents like receipts, contracts, etc, so you won't have to keep paper copies and stay organized.
Enjoy!
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@eleanorealter2095 2 жыл бұрын

I think you are the clearest explainer of this whole iPad reading music subject. Thank you. I am a very old lady but I will get the things you have described .

@ConstantineIsslamow 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing with us.

@WarmBeachWoman Жыл бұрын

Just awesome. Thank you for this! Exactly what we needed.

@travelswithmymate4486 Жыл бұрын

Good work!!! Well edited and presented in an enjoyable way.

@Rob-wg9nz 3 жыл бұрын

my favourite Chopin ballad in the background, also great video!

@BedlingtonGroomer Жыл бұрын

Very helpful! Thank you!

@willbarker828 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! Thank you!

@dileshalgama 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you this was very useful 👍

@chaplainmattsanders4884 8 күн бұрын

Very helpful!

@MayoNeighs27 Жыл бұрын

This has been the best explanation I've heard thank you mate I appreciate this, I've tried to get my drum sheet music online and had no luck

@rebeccaomara7719 11 ай бұрын

this is very helpful, thank you.

@edwardmanfredi121 Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation. I thought I was going to have to scan each and every page of scores. AT least I know now that I can use the camera. TY !

@sylvia1124 3 жыл бұрын

Great useful video.

@berre6297 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! And thanks for the humoristic notes. :)

@stevenr.2534 3 жыл бұрын

Akita is funny and the video was very informative. Thanks

@michaelsmith697 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! It’s always tricky getting stuff onto the iPad! But now thanks to you I see it’s easy! Thank you!

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Converting all your paper music into digital format is time consuming, but it's not that difficult. In my case, the effort was totally worth it!

@delysmurphy8103 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for yr help

@JesusChris00 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@maryoleinwatson9639 Жыл бұрын

Thanks you so much 🙏

@hildaomahony7498 Жыл бұрын

Just got the IPAD PRO 12 ! Thank you for this explanation. I'm off scanning all my life's worth of Music. Very exciting.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

Welcome to club!

@hamidkarate 11 ай бұрын

very nice

@tombaise8942 25 күн бұрын

The best.

@judgetoogood1033 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@nathanwalters2856 2 жыл бұрын

I will subscribe because of the time and effort you put into explaining things.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ngmoling334 8 ай бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel🎉🎉🎉

@themusiccovenant 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@abrahampatterson25 Жыл бұрын

This guys hilarious and deserves more subscribers 😂

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@johnsaldivar2619 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. The friends of the Guitar also thank you!

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

This can be useful for anyone who deals with lots of sheet music. If you don't have lots of page turns, you don't need a pedal, but you can still put all music in one place and get rid of awkward/heavy binders.

@enriquellorens9043 Жыл бұрын

I think there is another (easier) option you didn’t mention in your video. It is possible to scan the music directly from forScore, hitting the suitcase button in the top right corner, and after that selecting “scan”. This starts a process of scanning similar to the one you explained in first place, from the files app, but faster and with better quality. No need to adjust the corners of every page, the process is pretty automatic, and finally you don’t need to send your music to forScore, it’s already there. I hope this helps, congratulations on your channel, very informative and entertaining.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing it with me. This is definitely worth investigation and make an update video if it works well!

@ragnok2007 3 жыл бұрын

For Samsung, use MobileSheets Pro. Excellent program for managing your music. You can also use a foot pedal to flip through the music sheets with your foot while playing.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I did come across MobileSheets Pro while doing my recent research. I can totally see how it can work for Android devices. Things may have been different for me if this many music viewer apps were out when I bought my iPad. But now my biggest problem is migrating all the music with my markings to a new app. I wish they developed forescore for Android, but the forescore developers don't seem to be willing to do it...

@PeiwenTanbassoon821 3 жыл бұрын

the siri part 😂

@PianoBeaShar 3 жыл бұрын

"You should never seek legal advice from a musician." 🤣 Thank god Henle has their own app ... who would want to scan all the Beethoven Sonatas?! 😭 Great video! 👍😁 -Sharona

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I did scan all of my Beethoven Sonatas, both books... It was quite a hassle, but was totally worth it!

@PianoBeaShar 3 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Wow that is quite the feat! I admire that! I don't play my Sonatas enough to scan them all, but will be working on a new Sonata soon so I will scan that. I've also been scanning my music for decades lol. Not sure exactly how long, but it's been long.

@michaelsmith697 2 жыл бұрын

Henle has their own app? Wow!

@EJones-id1vi 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this very helpful video. Two questions: How do you scan pages of music that curve inward toward the spine of the book, especially in thicker books? Also, how do you scan pages that are larger than the surface of a standard scanner?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 8 ай бұрын

Push them down as much as possible :) So far the thickest book I scanned was Mozart Sonata Book I Henle edition, but the thickness didn't really become a problem. You may get some black edges, but you can easily crop them out if that bothers you. There might be a phone/tablet scanner app that may be able to even correct the curve of the paper. For larger pages, you can also use scanner app. But usually sheet music has a lot of margin on the edges so I never had music that was too big for a standard scanner.

@EJones-id1vi 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your response!

@carro2803 Жыл бұрын

Great video thank you so much! I just bought an iPad 10.2 for Yamaha Smart Pianist, I hope the screen size will be enough for forScore too. Can you please tell what are the programs you used on your PC to crop and edit the pdf pages into one continuous pdf file and was that a windows program or Mac, Linux? Thanks and all the best!

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

It's called PaperPort on Windows. It's an old software, so there may be more updated ones by now.

@carro2803 Жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel OK, thanks!

@vegknitter 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Akira! I wonder if you could answer a question for me! Is the musical notation that I am learning (Europe, US etc) a worldwide standard? Would pianists in Africa and Asia for example use the same notation and layout? Thank you in advance x

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

For the most part, notation system is basically same everywhere in the world. There are some ethnic music that has unique notation systems, but as far as the mainstream music is concerned, notation system is universal.

@vegknitter 3 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Many thanks x

@leowrestler 2 жыл бұрын

By any chance is there a program where I can scan music and have it play. I have a very old hymn book that I can’t find how it sounds or how to play

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

There should be softwares that can convert scanned music into MIDI and play it back. I've never used it though.

@DenCato 2 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Yes, on IOS there is 'music scanner'! It's amazing how good it works. Just take a picture of a sheet music and it can play how it sounds (for piano, and without the pedal, but still very good to get an idea!)

@laurawehry370 4 ай бұрын

If I scan all of my personal sheet music into fourscore, on a smaller iPad, can I then later transfer it to the iPad Pro, when I eventually purchase it without having to rescan all my music?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 4 ай бұрын

Yes!

@sylvia1124 3 жыл бұрын

Also, can you do a video on electric pianos? I have a Yamaha and it connects to the internet. I don't have a clue what to do with it.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion. But unfortunately, I don't own an electric piano, so my knowledge about it is limited. I know there are some crazy things going on like remote college audition using Yamaha disklavier.

@seansmart2756 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure I’d recommend sheet music on the ipad. I’ve lost out twice in the past having converted music to the ipad. They don’t last forever and sometimes glitch and you miss out. Apps are currently supported but for how long? I don’t think you can beat a physical copy.

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't experienced any glitch or loss of data. In fact, because all my music is backed up in cloud, so it was very easy to switch from one iPad to another. But you have a good point. Who knows how long forScore will be supported, and we are at the mercy of the developer and Apple. That's why if I could start over, I would have started with Android tablet and an app that uses common PDF format.

@seansmart2756 2 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel I had PDFs saved on iBooks. Took me ages (haha). My iPad died and it all wiped. I was gutted. It’s a great feature when it works, that’s true. It’s very handy. But personally I wouldn’t again and I’m working on building my phycial copies of music up since then. Still love your content and looking forward to more! Funnily enough, I’d considered a dedicated android tablet for this use. ❤️👍

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, no! I'm sorry to hear that. Technology can sometimes do that, unfortunately. Thankfully, all of my cloud storage has been doing and file transfer to new devices has been smooth for me. All of my music was scanned from the actual books, so I do own all of them in paper form, too. But it would be disastrous if I lost all of my markings I saved digitally.

@johnarneson5057 Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t work. Cannot scan on MacBook and then get to iPad. I’ve looked at a number of videos snd NOT ONE SHOWS HOW TO MOCE FROM MACBOOK TO IPAD. Very frustrating.

@user-bm2ce6mx4q Жыл бұрын

①How do you flip page while playing. ②Any similar app for Android pad?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

This is a squal to this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ps95Z7WEvbTXkWw.html

@user-bm2ce6mx4q Жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Thank you so much! I am new in this and interest to know more. Here comes the help from you 🙏. There is a speed indicater show on the note as you play along. Is this feature come from the app forScore or from the iPad?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

That is just my editing to show you where I'm playing.

@user-bm2ce6mx4q Жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannelThank you for replying. So it's not the forScore app build in function which automatically detect your playing speed, right? In other words the app won't highlight where you are playing. It's your editing software does the job. Is it that correct?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel Жыл бұрын

No. forScore just display the music. Blue line was added during editing the video.

@DaMaster1983 3 жыл бұрын

i also bought tablet just for that lol without watching this video. a week ago..

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I also have 2 videos about using iPad for Sheet Music and my thoughts on iPads. Check them out if you haven't done so yet.

@DaMaster1983 3 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel I will :) BTW IM making a music app for PC including music sheet editing.. I dont know if ill ever finish it because its boring. but I sure can make it. I try to force myself to continue..

@pilotdrift05 3 жыл бұрын

Do you think some teachers would seriously frown upon ipad sheet music?

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

I can see that happening, if the teacher is not familiar with the technology, or if s/he is just old school and hesitant to accept changes. But page turning problem has gone way too long for pianists. It's about time we evolved from centuries old technology to better and efficient way of enjoying music making. By the way, I had a student who used the exact same setup. She showed up to her lessons with just her iPad, AirTurn, and Apple Pencil, and lessons went even smother than using paper books. If anyone can afford it, I prefer all of my advanced students using this setup.

@pilotdrift05 3 жыл бұрын

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel thanks for the reply! Glad I found your channel. I can see my former teachers frowning on it. But, I have fully embraced it. Although I don’t have a page turner. Just slap the screen real fast haha

@AkiraIkegamiChannel 3 жыл бұрын

That is already much better than turning paper pages, isn't it?

@johnarneson5057 Жыл бұрын

What a waste of money. This app is terrible.