11-19-2024, 07:52 PM
My recent experience of adopting MobileSheets is as a bassist and guitarist across 3 covers bands sharing some songs plus my personal interests. I use some full bass transcriptions from UltimateGuitar Official, have a lot of short hand tabs in Word, and Word guitar chord sheets sourced from the band leader and then some stuff which is handwritten. I've compressed about 12 A4 binders into one tablet, 1000 tabs.
The process I used was to write a Word macro to generate PDFs which covered the bulk of my stuff, then printed UltimateGuitar stuff to PDF. A bit of scanning. That got me up and running. I used the custom field to identify the instrument the tab was for, and the collection to identify which band(s) the tab was for (a certain amount of crossover, but different arrangements and keys). I used OneDrive as I drifted into using it - I've found Google Drive a bit flaky (not specifically with MobileSheets) and of course being an office user drives you down the OneDrive route. As I have a very fast connection (900Mb up and down) anything I do on my PC is pretty much instantly available on the tablet via OneDrive, so new songs I print to an appropriate tab folder and then pick them up on the tablet.
It is quick and easy to knock up set lists, especially using the collection and instrument filter. I've not shared with bandmates, but for bass I use a completely different sheet from the other guys, whereas I could work with a shared sheet on guitar but bandmates are still in the world of paper. Another of my bands is really a scratch band on the night which relies on us preparing independently so sharing doesn't make any sense.
I found the highlighting and editing a little quirky to start with, but now my head is in the zone, it is easy enough - it is odd that for some things tablets are easier to work with but the limitations of the screen control are nicely worked around. There were only a handful of songs that needed it. Fortunately, most of our covers are fairly authentic.
I started using the song notes feature for setup (for bass Tone, Neck/bridge, finger/pick, Overdrive, Mute), but found the pop-up too irritating, so now I just have bold text at the top of the song, which turned out to be really quick to type once Android autofill got the drift.
The Companion backup feature is quick and easy and I used the Companion for the initial clean-up of song titles and collections, but mainly the tablet is easy to work with for odds and ends.
The process I used was to write a Word macro to generate PDFs which covered the bulk of my stuff, then printed UltimateGuitar stuff to PDF. A bit of scanning. That got me up and running. I used the custom field to identify the instrument the tab was for, and the collection to identify which band(s) the tab was for (a certain amount of crossover, but different arrangements and keys). I used OneDrive as I drifted into using it - I've found Google Drive a bit flaky (not specifically with MobileSheets) and of course being an office user drives you down the OneDrive route. As I have a very fast connection (900Mb up and down) anything I do on my PC is pretty much instantly available on the tablet via OneDrive, so new songs I print to an appropriate tab folder and then pick them up on the tablet.
It is quick and easy to knock up set lists, especially using the collection and instrument filter. I've not shared with bandmates, but for bass I use a completely different sheet from the other guys, whereas I could work with a shared sheet on guitar but bandmates are still in the world of paper. Another of my bands is really a scratch band on the night which relies on us preparing independently so sharing doesn't make any sense.
I found the highlighting and editing a little quirky to start with, but now my head is in the zone, it is easy enough - it is odd that for some things tablets are easier to work with but the limitations of the screen control are nicely worked around. There were only a handful of songs that needed it. Fortunately, most of our covers are fairly authentic.
I started using the song notes feature for setup (for bass Tone, Neck/bridge, finger/pick, Overdrive, Mute), but found the pop-up too irritating, so now I just have bold text at the top of the song, which turned out to be really quick to type once Android autofill got the drift.
The Companion backup feature is quick and easy and I used the Companion for the initial clean-up of song titles and collections, but mainly the tablet is easy to work with for odds and ends.