Beam Music 4+
Ultimate Drill Book
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
IMPORT AND ASSIGN FILES WITH EASE
- Import PDFs from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Local Storage
- Assign full files or single pages
- Crop, cut, and edit parts
- Give edit access to student leaders
ANNOTATE YOUR MUSIC
- Pencil tool: Draw on the music
- Highlighter: Mark key areas
- Text tool: Add important notes
- Shared notes: Section leaders can add notes for the entire section
STAY IN SYNC WITH LIVE MODE
Activate Live Mode to automatically connect everyone in the ensemble to your device. When you select a piece of music, everyone’s individual parts for that song are instantly displayed on their personal device. All without the need for internet.
ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY
- Create a collection of songs
- Add songs to a set list in a specific order
- Add the duration of the song
- Back up your library with Beam Backup
What’s New
Version 1.24
- Live Mode performance improvements
- General fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Crashing
Love the app it’s great for having music in front of everyone but every now and then it will randomly crash.
Annotations Disappeared
Overall Beam is great! It’s easy to use on the field, especially the annotation features. In rehearsal I always mark my step offs in my music to help me remember.
On game day, I used the live mode feature to stay in synch with my director. It worked well! But when I exited live mode and went to open my music at halftime, all of my notes were missing from my music. I tried closing and opening the app again but that wasn’t working. My notes kept coming back after zooming in and out but then would disappear again. This had never happened to me before. The only difference between rehearsal and game day was that I had used the live mode feature. But I don’t know how or if those features correlate.
I do enjoy using Beam, and I hope this bug gets fixed!
Very Unreliable
My collegiate band uses this, and it is not great. It crashes all the time, really randomly and inconveniently. The crashing has been getting worse since I first started with Beam a year ago. Notations from other songs will randomly appear on my music, and sometimes notations will disappear completely and not come back. The search feature rarely works, which isn’t great when I’m quickly looking for a certain song from a long library. Sometimes when I’m writing annotations they won’t stick, won’t erase, and multiple versions of what I’ve wrote and erased come and go. When flipping between pages or pieces, stuff often won’t load (no matter how good the internet connection), leaving me stranded on the field with a blank screen. The save zoom fails a lot too, which is confusing and frustrating when a piece of music is big and long.
Everyone in my 300+ member band is having these issues. Overall, not a great software.
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Information
- Seller
- Ultimate Drill Book, Inc.
- Size
- 135.6 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Ultimate Drill Book
- Price
- Free