I'm guessing there's an Arduino in the box to handle the Bluetooth functionality.
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I'm guessing there's an Arduino in the box to handle the Bluetooth functionality.
The point to point wiring is beautiful. I wonder what kind of tubes are in it. I bet it has a massive cinemag transformer.
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I've had to use 2 stands before, we didn't have anything like this. Wish we did. Tape the pages all together as suggested. If you have some rests somewhere you could make 2 copies of that page- play half the page, turn it over at the rests and play the rest of the page on. Use a highlighter to make it absolutely clear where you are.
Edit: Looks like Renaissance already suggested this, so... I'll second what he said!!
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Just wing it. Nobody pays attention to the bass player anyway. 
I have nothing more constructive to add to the good ideas above. I only have to deal with this once in a great while at church. This thread has been helpful.
I have nothing more constructive to add to the good ideas above. I only have to deal with this once in a great while at church. This thread has been helpful.
I normally use an iPad running Scorecerer and an AirTurn foot pedal. Back when I used sheet music I would put it in a three ring binder and dog ear the top and bottom corners on alternate pages to make the page turns easier. I still do that with the choir music for our Christmas concert where I sing, rather than play, bass. Memorizing music is always great but not always practical when you are given a ton of new music only a couple/three weeks in advance and the fact that you will only perform it once or twice in your entire life isn't exactly motivating! On top of that choral music is rarely easy to memorize since it is often quite complex. For whatever reason I find memorizing the vocal lines for choir music far easier than memorizing the bass guitar line and I don't always have time to memorize the vocal lines.
When I was a young lad playing clarinet in the school band sheet music was all we had. But sheet music for band instruments tends to be quite densely packed with many lines per page. Add in the repeats and DS al codas, etc and you could play for a surprisingly long time from two facing pages so page turns were not much of an issue. Now that I am older and occasionally attend symphony concerts I notice that the musicians often sit in pairs with the "junior" member of each pair assigned to turn the pages so that the "talent" can continue playing! That does not work for the lone bassist although sometimes the choir pianist has a page turner as a partner. When I play for the choir the music is often much less dense on the page than it would be for a solo band instrument. You generally have three staves per line, one for the female voices, one for the male voices, and one for the piano and sometimes there are four staves because the piano gets two. This can get you down to two vocal lines per page whereas a page for a single instrument would have eight to ten lines per page. And then sometimes the music will be published as what is known as an "open score" where each vocal part has its own stave and now you are talking a single vocal line per page.
Back when I played from paper I would try to print out the music so that repeats, etc, where entirely within two facing pages whenever possible. In those cases where you had to DS three or four pages back this was impossible of course. In those cases I would at least occasionally print out multiple copies of some pages so that I could always flip forwards rather than backwards as I played the song. I continue that practice on the iPad. Scorecerer stores the music as image files so once I import a song into it I use an image editor to make multiple copies of pages and/or rearrange the pages to make all the repeats either span a single page or can be handled with forward page turns only.
It all adds up to this: page turning can be a major problem for the musicians who accompany choral music! That is why I am so fond of the modern technological solution.
When I was a young lad playing clarinet in the school band sheet music was all we had. But sheet music for band instruments tends to be quite densely packed with many lines per page. Add in the repeats and DS al codas, etc and you could play for a surprisingly long time from two facing pages so page turns were not much of an issue. Now that I am older and occasionally attend symphony concerts I notice that the musicians often sit in pairs with the "junior" member of each pair assigned to turn the pages so that the "talent" can continue playing! That does not work for the lone bassist although sometimes the choir pianist has a page turner as a partner. When I play for the choir the music is often much less dense on the page than it would be for a solo band instrument. You generally have three staves per line, one for the female voices, one for the male voices, and one for the piano and sometimes there are four staves because the piano gets two. This can get you down to two vocal lines per page whereas a page for a single instrument would have eight to ten lines per page. And then sometimes the music will be published as what is known as an "open score" where each vocal part has its own stave and now you are talking a single vocal line per page.
Back when I played from paper I would try to print out the music so that repeats, etc, where entirely within two facing pages whenever possible. In those cases where you had to DS three or four pages back this was impossible of course. In those cases I would at least occasionally print out multiple copies of some pages so that I could always flip forwards rather than backwards as I played the song. I continue that practice on the iPad. Scorecerer stores the music as image files so once I import a song into it I use an image editor to make multiple copies of pages and/or rearrange the pages to make all the repeats either span a single page or can be handled with forward page turns only.
It all adds up to this: page turning can be a major problem for the musicians who accompany choral music! That is why I am so fond of the modern technological solution.
What if you get the music that day? What if you get 20 songs to read that you'll never play again? Both are common occurrences for me. No way I would memorize that much for so little payoff.
I "dog ear" the bottom right of the page. Then read ahead a measure or 2 before the bottom, reach for the dog ear and quickly turn the page. It usually works. If there are lots of repeats, codas etc and you need to go back and forth, I just do the best I can.
Copy, reduce size if necessary--- tape to large piece of card board.
I do lots of gigs where I read off choral music (sometimes 20+ pages), page turn every 8 bars---NG.
The above method works great, especially for the classical piece in the show that require me to bow my EUB (Vivaldi, Handel, Bach...)
For the "pop" and "show" tunes, I read off the piano player's music. If the group won't spring for the instrumental parts that are often available for the arrangement, I talk them into letting me set up to the left of the piano bench--- the pianist are usually more rehearsed with the production and are adept at turning pages.
I do lots of gigs where I read off choral music (sometimes 20+ pages), page turn every 8 bars---NG.
The above method works great, especially for the classical piece in the show that require me to bow my EUB (Vivaldi, Handel, Bach...)
For the "pop" and "show" tunes, I read off the piano player's music. If the group won't spring for the instrumental parts that are often available for the arrangement, I talk them into letting me set up to the left of the piano bench--- the pianist are usually more rehearsed with the production and are adept at turning pages.
#3 is impossible to do if you are reading off choral arrangements (page turns every 8 or 12 measures).
I do lots of shows--- 1 dress rehearsal, 1 or 2 shows---done.
Not worth the effort (and very difficult) to memorize. Key changes, and particular parts that must be played exactly as the left hand of the piano.
I just finished my last of 3 Christmas shows--- about 40 tunes that I will likely never play again. Even the arrangements of Frosty, and Rudolph were not easy or typical.
Pit work is very different than playing covers in a bar band.
LOL! I lose my mind when someone hands me a piano score. I couldn't imagine trying to play off a choral score!
Yup. I don't know many people who will learn 100 pages of music to play it a dozen times.
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I start by marking the passages where I can flip the pages. Then I get those stick on page markers - real estate and attorneys use them, but slices of post it notes work, too. I mark them and stick them on staggered from top to bottom, to make them easy to flip. Then I put two stands side by side, and painter's tape the first and last page to each stand. This is to insure the music won't fall off the stand (learned the hard way). Then accordion fold the music into place. It looks like an open book when done....
Lol! Nightmares of that... And arrangements that have been hacked up, especially ones that have had whole pages cut out, then back up two pages then jump to the next to last page.... And you're reading piano left hand, which is already printed too small and has been recopied about 5 times...
Back when I did pit bands for plays (some songs were 10+ pages) I used to memorize the first and last lines on a page, some times prematurely turning a page four bars prior to the actual page turn.
I keep one of these on my stand during musicals. It get's placed behind pages during rests/long tones to facilitate extra quick and easy page turns.
hot chick/elf = page turner
when i was at the height of my classical piano days , i was working on Rhapsody in Blue , the piano solo version is 27 pages .. !!
when i was at the height of my classical piano days , i was working on Rhapsody in Blue , the piano solo version is 27 pages .. !!