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Rositsa Aleksandrova

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Jun 9 • Sheet Music! 🎼📋

Hands free page flipper?

For those of us who sight read, we often use sheet music to immediately play something without having to practice.

But some songs are 6-25 and more pages long… When you have a few of those - there is already a big stack of paper.

And if you like to organize those in sheet protectors and folders - it does pile up and bulk up pretty quickly!

I sometimes duck tape them on the back so I can flip 4-5 pages at a time. But when the duck tape gets old, it unglues itself and falls off at some point. I deal with it…

I also use an iPad to store PDFs in it - over 18000 and growing! Easy to search and find… It is not my preferred way to practice since I have only one page at a time in front of me… And need to tap every time I am done w the page… It’s very annoying, especially in faster songs where it takes time from the song to tap the page and that makes me pause unnecessarily.

I had this same convo w

@Kim Northup

the other day and that made me make a research for alternative ways of flipping pages.

What I knew when we talked was the use of Bluetooth pedal. In case of playing the piano, you would use it w your left foot since that foot seldomly uses any pedals (not never, just not often). The right foot is using the dumper majority of the time, so that’s out.

Now, I am thinking, you play the piano w right hand - one thing and left hand - something different and your right foot doing a third thing and now the left foot something else???

If I put myself in the shoes of someone just starting out or even more advanced person who is playing a new song and have to pay attention at coordinating so many things, it could get confusing and overwhelming…

I am sure I can get used to it really quick and do it that way but for those searching for other options, I came across this video that summarizes the 3 most used methods of hands free page flips: