I recently purchased an Android tablet and I'm looking at charting applications for playing music. As far as I know it runs only on Mac and PC, but maybe a small Windows tablet/convertible could be an alternative? Have you had a look at Band-in-a-box? It is definitely more expensive and cannot handle some of the most common music book formats, but last time I had at look the backing tracks sounded really great. To be honest, I'm not sure what would be the best alternative in this case. It is compatible with the iReal chord charts, in that these can be imported, but there is no playalong feature in Fakebook Pro. So, I'm sorry to say that the Fakebook app will not help in this case. Thanks for this wonderful mail I'm so glad that your father continues to enjoy music and can still entertain others with his playing. Is it possible to use the back up band capabilities with Fakebook charts? I have seen that iReal Pro is compatible with Fakebook Pro but I haven’t really seen HOW it is compatible. iReal Pro looks great for this… but… he also wants a lead line. He would like to have some back up instrumentation – primarily bass and drums. Now that he is getting older he is not gigging as much and finds himself playing old folks homes on his own. I’m researching apps for my 89 year old dad who has been a jazz piano player for many years. There are open formats as well, most importantly MusicXML, but Fakebook Pro does not yet support that (although that is on the to-do list). the major Mac/Windows notation and DAW applications). To do that you need to use some of the specialized music file format, which in many cases are proprietary (e.g. Other PDF files may have embedded music fonts or be in vector format, but these can still not be transposed because they contain no explicit musical information. Most music available on-line (free and for purchase) is in PDF format, most often in the form of a scanned page (i.e.

The quick and simple answer to your question in 'no, the Fakebok Pro app doesn't transpose melody notes, only chords'.īut to answer your other question (about other possible app options) and to explain why Fakebook Pro can't do this, I'd like to elaborate a little on music formats. Does your Fakebook Pro app provide that or do you have another offer or hint where to buy something like that?

What I miss is to also see the melody, together with the chords, both in a transposable fashion (which iReal Pro provides, but its without the melody).

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