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this episode of what CF is brought to you by check treads Lotus John Q here from TechnoBuffalo and how you find folks doing look good swell welcome to what's the absent in the last episode a youtuber by the name of not yet named 89 very clever asked me if I can check out four score for the iPad beautiful exactly the question that I was looking for so not yet named and all you find folks out there this is my review for four score okay I had no idea what four score was so I had to look it up when you mention it turns out it's a score reading application scores in music score not sports score I thought of sports score no it's a music man BAM I haven't played music in a long time I was really into guitar back in the day but I was on the tablature system instead of the standard notation system aka I was on the non so theoretical self-taught I prefer seeing numbers versus dots with flags sticking out of them system but I didn't understand music theory so yeah four scores basically you're all in one score library and reader with built-in tools like a metronome think of it like a Kindle but for music when you first open the application you're prompted by four score to ask if you want to download their sample library I'd recommend doing this as playing around with these sample scores can help you get used to the application and you get great pieces by composers like Beethoven Mozart Bach like this das Walter Lyon Clavel ear 1-5 Prelude wow there's like 22 of these guys before we get to the features of this application let's just see how well it works let's pretend I'm jamming away and I rapidly need to change the page a single swipe or even a gentle tap would do it I bet this beats having to scramble through bushels of paper that alone k plus the fact that you can store a bunch of scores on your iPad makes this app worth it already need to jump around no problem the slider on the bottom will help you quickly navigate to whatever page you want look at them notes with their stems cleft sharps and flats and time signatures and whatnots amazing and vividly clear you can also add text notes highlights and doodles not to mention rearrange and crop your scores and much much more let's take a look at the metronome this thing is pretty neat you can set it for whatever speed you need it to be slow it down to practice the trickier pieces or speed it up and play the song double-time because you're a baller the volume isn't bad but it won't be as loud as your traditional metronome you can also choose a visual metronome option and the screen will flash or if you're fancy you can enable both auto turn is pretty nifty as it'll automatically turn the page for you after set of bars or beats the only thing is that you have to manually set the bars or beats in your score sheets in advanced if you want it to work properly some counting might be involved but totally worth it here comes the best part loading your own scores for score opens PDFs and gives you several options it has a built-in browser which is used to download the initial fourscore library unfortunately it doesn't work too well as you can't or at least I couldn't for the life of me get the keyboard to pop up outside of the nav bar which makes searching and navigation and no go you can also use Dropbox which is handy and open and save PDFs from emails which is what I do or this special darkroom feature that allows you to use images from your gallery or take a picture from your camera great in situations where you need to take a quick snapshot of real life sheet music or if you just want to look at cute pictures of pandas speaking of pandas I'm gonna take some time to thank our friends at Jackthreads only suckers pay full price if you love alternative apparel brands a kid you're about Hurley and Stussy and hate wasting all of your cash listen up okay there's a new invite only shopping club just for guys called Jackthreads serving up Street skate and surf wear brands at prices that will melt your brain there's a waitlist but if you head on down to jack threads.com slash techno that's jack threads.com slash Tec hno you'll get instant access to all of the killer hook-ups go right now dude it's just in background music and whoo back to fourscore because this application opens PDFs if you're a tab person like myself you will be able to open your tabs with fourscore I exported this guy from a computer app called Guitar Pro highly recommended I've been using it for years by the way I haven't actually played guitar in years so I was just kind of pretending here overall for what it does for score is pretty amazing and totally worth the 5 bucks which is why I give it a four point five out of five the only thing I think it needs to work on would be the built in browser I couldn't get the keyboard to pop up which would help to search and download scores well not yet named I hope this helps and if you want to pick up an iPad just for fourscore maybe check out Craigslist or Ebay or something you know pick it pick it up cheap and for everyone else out there if you have any application that you would like me to check out let me know by commenting thank you very much for tuning in this was John Q from TechnoBuffalo I think I did a double bling just there I don't know why and I'll see you guys next time latest and by the way thank you very much for all of the constructive criticism from the last episode I myself I'm not a really heavy Android user so I don't really fit with all the things and all that kind of stuff but I'm trying alright so yeah constructive criticism always welcome a lot better than saying you suck in things of that nature about 75 times doesn't really help so yeah thanks guys