LarryS
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I use one called UkuleleTabs (Android)
I got my new Kindle, and I like it. Especially for the price, as I bought it from Best Buy on the special of the day. First thing, if one does not have good eyes, it is a little small. I have good eyes for an old man, so it works perfect. I actually like that I can slip it into the big leg pocket of my cargo shorts. There is all my music, in my pocket. How convenient is that? But I installed the MobileSheets app and it works very well. I like it a lot. I had a bunch of songs in an odt. format, and I had to change them to PDFs to import them from drop box, but that was pretty easy. Still working on the auto scroll, but I think it is going to work. But I also installed the Ultimate Guitar app. Ultimate Guitar is the first place I go when I want to find a song and I get along well with the site, but the app is incredible. I have hundreds of thousands of songs at my finger tips. I can change them to whatever key I want in a moment. At this point, I can play darn near any request anyone wants to throw at me. Most every song has a ukulele version, and the chords are shown in a popup at the bottom, so if by chance a song has a chord or two that I don't know, bam, I pull up the chord charts and learn it on the fly, right then and there.
Which Kindle model did you get?
But I also installed the Ultimate Guitar app. Ultimate Guitar is the first place I go when I want to find a song and I get along well with the site, but the app is incredible. I have hundreds of thousands of songs at my finger tips. I can change them to whatever key I want in a moment. At this point, I can play darn near any request anyone wants to throw at me. Most every song has a ukulele version, and the chords are shown in a popup at the bottom, so if by chance a song has a chord or two that I don't know, bam, I pull up the chord charts and learn it on the fly, right then and there.
I bought the MobileSheets pro for $12.99, the price of a book full of songs that I don't care to play, so I don't consider that expensive. I don't know about subscriptions. It is an app, so I just bought it. I don't think that I bought a subscription to it. Because it is an Amazon Kindle that I'm putting it on, I just went to the Amazon app store, found it, and clicked on install. Amazon charged my credit card $12,99 for it, just like buying any app. It works pretty well. The auto scroll is tricky and everyone advised me of that when I bought it, so that was not a surprise. Like everything, there are limitations and it takes a bit of time experimenting and playing with it to learn all the features. But over all, it is working fine. I will probably go to a bluetooth page turner eventually though. It likes PDFs and it works well with them. I did not realize that I can turn almost any document into a PDF by going to the print menu and picking "save as PDF" instead of hitting print. Then I save it to the MobileSheets. That makes it very convenient to put songs that I find on line to the MobileSheets, as most of the sites that I find songs on have a print option and I can save them from there. I read the reviews and got a lot of advise from other musicians. Like everything, if you want to spend time figuring out what it won't do, you will eventually find things that it won't do. If you want to take the time to get to know the app, you will find that there is a lot that it will do. That is about all the advise I have on it at this point.Rllink, I'd love to hear more about this app. I've thought about downloading it on several occasions but I really can't figure out the payment models. The reviews are split between people who love it and people who feel the pricing scale is deceptive. I understand it's for use on one device and have no problem with that. I'm just wondering, if I pay the lifetime subscription am I done? Sounds like a silly question but some of the reviews would lead you to believe that's not the case. Overall the good reviews seem to outshine the complaints about subscriptions but it would be nice to hear from someone who has (and likes) the app. Thanks!
Rllink, I'd love to hear more about this app. I've thought about downloading it on several occasions but I really can't figure out the payment models. The reviews are split between people who love it and people who feel the pricing scale is deceptive. I understand it's for use on one device and have no problem with that. I'm just wondering, if I pay the lifetime subscription am I done? Sounds like a silly question but some of the reviews would lead you to believe that's not the case. Overall the good reviews seem to outshine the complaints about subscriptions but it would be nice to hear from someone who has (and likes) the app. Thanks!
That is why I'm going the direction I am. I keep accumulating and accumulating. I'm not going to become one of those ukulele players that shows up with a shopping cart full of stuff in tow. Several people have told me that they think the Kindle is too small to be practical, but the Kindle fits in my cargo pants pocket. In fact, yesterday I was wearing my Carhart work pants and found that I could stick it in the back pocket of those. That is important to me.I like good old fashioned paper products but like many other posters above I'm really happy to be able to carry around all of my music, magazines, books, videos etc in the pocket of my cargo pants or in my briefcase.
I've paid for Guitar Pro on Android and iOS, and it still wants money every time I use it. I even paid twice on Android! It's hard to believe this isn't deliberate. Their content is all user generated, though they pay the licensing fees. I quit using it.
As I said, I use onsong but I do also have ultimate guitar app. I bought this many years ago. I think a lifetime membership then was a one time payment of $12. Things have changed over the years and now they have a pro package that unlocks features that I don't have. Some looked cool but Once I got onsong, I didn't use UG much anymore. Weirdly, when I occasionally go on UG now, it asks me if I want to buy a lifetime membership. I think it really is just trying to tell me I should upgrade.
I've paid for Guitar Pro on Android and iOS, and it still wants money every time I use it. I even paid twice on Android! It's hard to believe this isn't deliberate. Their content is all user generated, though they pay the licensing fees. I quit using it.
I didn't realize that photoshooter was talking about the ultimateguitar app. I got that off the Amazon app store too. I paid $7.99 for that and I don't think it is "pro". But still, that is a lot less than a book with a half dozen songs in it. I also didn't see anything about it being a subscription. There was no pricing structure, it was just $7.99. Maybe I'm using something different.
here are some best apps listDid a search on google play for "ukulele" and all kinds of interesting apps came up. Can anyone make recommendations? I'd like an app to compile music and a song writer app that is uke friendly. Anyone have a favorite app or know one that would be handy for beginners?