Sheet Music and Pages

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Sheet Music and Pages

I might be a future iPad owner if those of you can answer this question for me. I play the piano and guitar and have a ton of sheet music in PDF. Would I be able to just put these onto the iPad and bring them up in PDF to view? This would be my main appeal to the iPad to use it as a mobile sheet music reader. Will this work? Thanks!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3), 2nd Gen

Posted on Apr 5, 2010 7:30 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 5, 2010 7:46 PM in response to mattedward

Would I be able to just put these onto the iPad and bring them up in PDF to view?

Sure, but not in Pages. It doesn't read pdf (it is a word processor and exports to pdf). GoodReader is a pdf reader some recommend.

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jaxjason

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Apr 6, 2010 1:56 PM in response to mattedward

I just saw a friend that works with sheet music and I mentioned your posting and asked him what he uses on his iPad. He recommended either "Tabtoolkit" or "Sheets".

Look at them on itunes and on the web to see if they can do what you want, or even more hopefully.

Jason

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mattedward Author

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Apr 6, 2010 2:30 PM in response to jaxjason

Those are awesome looking apps, I like both of them. Thanks!

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jaxjason

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Apr 6, 2010 3:28 PM in response to mattedward

No problem, anytime

Jason

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Apr 7, 2010 7:14 PM in response to jaxjason

Yea I agree with the 'TabToolKit' app. I am huge into guitar and piano and this app is AMAZING. You either transfer over the files from your computer or just download them from the iPad from the internet. I use 911tabs.com for all my guitar pro tabs.

The other app that is pretty good for transferring over PDFs to your iPad is Goodreader. For .99 it does an excellent job.

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mbmleone

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Apr 22, 2010 5:01 AM in response to mattedward

Maybe this program is a good alternative for ordinary PDFs:
http://www.musicreader.net/software/musicreader/apple-ipad.html

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