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[pdxdjazz]

PLAYER CHARTS vs. READER CHARTS

Sometimes you have to decide between a crowded, single-page chart for the player feature or having easily readable multi-page chart(s) for the performer.

Because this wonderful app is designed for a single-page cell phone platform, there will be some limitations.
If you are composing a lengthy symphony, iReal Pro is probably not your first choice.
The app was designed to DISPLAY the changes to a song on a single page on a small screen. A PERFECT portable, in your pocket, transposing fakebook.
If you're looking to handle long, complex arrangements on a single page, in iReal Pro, it's a challenge.

The wonderful player feature was initially intended as a PRACTICE tool. Because of the great work by the developer, some find the player useful in performance.

To address the issue: How many measures are possible?, if there's only one chord in a measure, only ONE space is required for that bar. Just add a bar-line on each side of that space. So, it's often quite possible to squeeeeeze lots more measures into your chart. Your chart may be ugly, impossible for a performer to easily read and have tiny chords that overlap, but will play just fine by the iRp player feature. Sometimes you just gotta choose what you really need.
More:
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...sures-per-line

The user may need to choose between having a readable chart, or the player track that works a certain way. For instance, you can force the player to accent off-beats by switching back and forth between time signatures but that can make the chart very difficult to read on the fly.
More on Half-beats:
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...-on-half-beats
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...chopate-chords

Likewise, you can make the player follow a complex form by writing it all out, but then you must condense the lengthy chart (by shortening measures) to make it fit the small screen, single page format of this wonderful app which makes it hard (or impossible) for the performer to read.

You can choose to have a lengthy, but easy for the performer to read and play chart by writing it all out, start to finish, top to bottom over multiple pages. Then during performance, simply swipe page to page. I do this for long choral arrangements with various D.S.'s and key changes.
Make sure you title each chart (page) in a way that will make sense to you.
Title xyz p1, Title xyz p2, etc.

You can still use the player feature to practice a part of the arrangement on a single page, but to play the whole song's track, you'd need to export the tracks to a DAW or sequencer, splice them together and play them with an external device.

Hopefully, in the process of adding more and more layers of features to be all things for all users, iReal Pro won't loose track of the elegant ease and simplicity that was the original hallmark of these incredible apps.

)BOB

[pdxdjazz]

Most first-time posters get into trouble because they don't understand that posting a chart/playlist on the Forums takes more than one step.

First, a copy of the song/chart/playlist *code* must be "copied to your (hidden) clipboard".
You do that by selecting the "send" (or "share") icon on the app's song-view or playlist screen,
(iOS: little box with the arrow)
(android: < *)
Select "Share Chord Chart"
Then choose ”Forums".
That will save the song/playlist *code* to your device's "hidden clipboard".
Next, go to the forums.
You can do that through the app or by using your browser.
Then, that saved code must be pasted (long-press to show paste-button) into a forum post or reply (in the correct place/thread in the forums please) it will appear to be a big block of random text characters like this:

0lcKQXy%297C%287C%3eadoC%20la%20LZF7%3c44T%7byX%29 G%2f%20LZC7G%2f7%2dD%7cQyX%297bA%28b7AZL%20lcKQyX% 297C%28b%28D%2d7lcKQy7CZL%20%28Ab7%29%2dD%20%207bA ZL%2cbA%2f7b%2dE%20%2cG%2f7%2dD1N%7cQyX7%7c%20G77b A%7cQ7G%7cQyl%20%20%7d%7cyX7G%7cQyX7bA%7c%2cb%2fA7 %2dbE%20%20bA%2f7%2dD2NQ%7cC7XcKQyXeniF%20C7%2cXy% 2eD%3c%20%207bA%7c%7dQyX7%7bC%7dQyX7F%7b%7d%20%20l


Then the message must be saved/posted.
Voila! That big block of song-code has been converted to the song/playlist-link.

New Song - Example

If your post doesn't appear immediately, it may be held pending moderator review, be patient, check back later.

Please post personal playlists in the SANDBOX forum.
The main song forums are for posting NEW songs and arrangements to share for the benefit of all.
Please use the SANDBOX for personal use, transfers and testing.

Read this:
Beginners
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...=7078#post7078

Thanks,
)BOB