Guides
Practical answers for your ensemble’s life
Scores, rehearsals, concerts, rights: a direct answer, then the detail, updated regularly.
- How do you move your ensemble’s PDF scores to NoteStand?Create the ensemble’s space, then import your PDFs from Repertoire › New piece › Import documents: several files at once, as one piece or one piece per file. Link each PDF to its part, link the parts to the ensemble’s sections, then invite the musicians: everyone finds “My part” in each piece. A forScore or Newzik library comes across with a dedicated import.Read the guide ›
- How do you organise a choir’s sheet music?File everything by piece: one up-to-date version of the score, each voice’s part, the lyrics with their translation, each voice’s starting note and the practice recordings. Share this repertoire in one place for the whole choir, rather than by email or messaging, so every correction reaches everyone before the next rehearsal.Read the guide ›
- Which tool should an ensemble use for its sheet music?It depends on what you have to manage. To read and mark up on your own on an iPad, forScore is the reference. To share scores and markings in an orchestra or opera house equipped with iPads, Newzik is the most mature. To write or arrange, MuseScore is free and open source. To organise the whole ensemble — repertoire, each musician’s part, concerts, attendance, audience programme and rights — on everyone’s own device, with no licence per musician, that’s what NoteStand does.Read the guide ›
- How do several musicians or singers share one tablet?Put the tablet on a stand, at reading height for everyone, and show the score without highlighting one voice, with lyrics large enough to read a metre away. Give the pages to one person, ideally with a Bluetooth page-turn pedal, and run the programme in concert order, so nobody has to search.Read the guide ›
- How do you make a concert programme for the audience?List the pieces in the order played, each with its title, composer and a short introduction; add the ensemble, its guests and the interval. Choose the format: an A5 booklet (an A4 sheet folded), an A4 sheet, or an online page the audience opens with a QR code. Write each introduction once, in your repertoire: it will serve again at the next concert.Read the guide ›
- How do you organise a wind band’s parts?File each piece with its full score and all its parts, one per instrument and voice (clarinet 1, 2, 3…). For each concert, note who plays which part in each piece and spot the parts left without a player. Mark the conductor’s decisions on a reference version everyone shares, and keep track of where each edition comes from for the rights.Read the guide ›
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