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Ireal pro with melody9/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Want to learn B7? Just ask Siri on your iPhone! You have a gig tonight and need to play All The Things You are in Db? No problem, the iRealBook will transpose the song for you, you can just read it off your iPad! How convenient! Today, the amount of information at our fingertips is just on a completely different and unprecedented scale. Bach had to walk miles to different towns just to learn certain things! We learned it, got back on the bus, went home to our mates ”. In his own words “ we got on the bus, trouped across Liverpool, changed a couple of buses, found this fellow, and he showed us B7. There’s a famous story from Paul McCartney (who rose to superstardom thanks to the efforts of Kanye West) who talked about learning the B7 chord by traveling far just to find someone who knew how to play it. The one before that would say “I kept wearing down my records from repeated use”. The previous generation would say: “In my day, there were no CDs, I was learning from cassette tapes”. For instance, a 35 year old musician today would tell a 20 year old: “when I was learning music, there was no YouTube, I had to learn from CDs”. I can only wonder what further innovations await us!Įvery previous generation of musician uses the same line with the latest generation: “back in my day, we had to do X to learn to do Y”. All this, thanks to various technological advancements. I wish Jeff Bezos would spend a day filling orders at one of his Amazon warehouses and see if he likes it.We live in an incredible era for musicians, where we have instant access to an incredible wealth of information that wasn’t available just 15 years ago. Isn't that Captitalism in a microcosm? Workers get paid small amounts to do work that benefits the owners of the company. They all seem to think we practice our craft so they can make money from it, not us. ![]() Toss in ASCAP and BMI and you have a free-for-all claiming payments.which mostly only gets to the original composer, and sometimes arranger, in pitiful amounts. The music business and copyrights are a really messed area. Distribution electronically or on paper of transcriptions is another gray area. Sound tracks on recordings can be copyrighted, but there is no copyright that prevents transcription. The publishing company of the original tune will have granted rights to the paper publisher to use the tune, and distribute arrangements. Check with Harry Fox Agency or US Copyright laws, You'll see.Īlso arrangements can only be copyrighted for resale, paper or electric. That said, I am a little surprised they haven't added the ability to copy a pdf and associate it with a track.įYI: you can't copyright cord changes. somewhere) the Hal Leonard books on something like the Kindle store and have one screen up or swap screens if you want the melody. A tablet version would be nice but on both Android and iOS, you can have background apps or side-by-side applications depending on your screen size. I don't know how useful it would even be to have it on a phone screen anyway. The reason that the application doesn't have melodies is that it is purely a chord chart application exclusively. Adobe would be out of business immediately! Or even more pertinent, if you had to charge copyright if your application could view copywritten materials. ![]() That application likewise includes nothing 'out of the box' (if you'll excuse the pun), but there are ample community generated files that have melodies and chord changes to most of the realbooks. Band-in-a-box has a similar product but it includes the ability to perform melodies. The reason for that is the publication companies sent a cease and desist because they had titles of their songs built into the app.Now, the changes themselves have to be downloaded from a community maintained list as pointed out by others here. It isn't a copyright issue as the application itself doesn't provide even chord changes (as it did when it first started a long, long time ago) for anything other than the blues and a few sample exercises. ![]()
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