Instead of reading full scores, I depend on chord and lyric sheets very much during performance. If you are playing the piano and singing at the same time, I think you will prefer to look at the lyrics with chords above it.
Mike Warren wrote a piece of simple but very useful software called Digital Fake Book.
Main features:
- Keeps all your songs in one place for easy, one-click selection.
- Built-in metronome with tempo setting for each song.
- Audio file linking with A/B section looping helps with learning songs by ear.
- Text size and sheet divider position is saved with each song enabling the largest text size possible while still fitting the whole song on the screen.
- Random sets can be created to make practice more varied.
- Several color schemes (themes) to choose from.
Now I’ve found a reason to trash all my printed lyrics books.
Thanks Mike for making this program and distribute it as a freeware. Download it here.
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