iGigBook is a new iPad application specifically designed for the day to day needs of all levels of musicians. iGigBook indexes over 30 different fake books, allowing quick searches across multiple books and thousands of songs, by title or by composer. iGigBook includes live performance features such as a set list manager and the ability to swipe the screen to advance from song to song. It includes a web based song index editor for creating and maintaining custom book indexes.
“Necessity is the mother of invention and it is the primary motivation for the creation of iGigBook. I'm a musician and I own a large number of fake books and the challenge for me has always been, given a list of tunes I may perform, getting all of the music together in one place so that I can use it effectively. To meet this challenge prior to iGigBook, I created a physical binder with just the index pages of all of the books I owned and when I needed to find a tune, I would consult the index of each book to see if the tune was in it. Once I located the songs, I would make copies of pages or print copies from PDF versions of the books to create a “gig book" that I would play from. The problem with this was that it seems that on every gig, tunes tend to get called that are not in the book I created but may be in a book that I own but did not bring. iGigBook solves this problem by giving me access to my entire song library, literally thousands of songs in seconds." Phil Smith, creator and developer of iGigBook:
iGigBook does not include any PDF books; the musician must provide their own books.
iGigBook is currently available for sale on the iTunes Apps Store for $9.99
“Necessity is the mother of invention and it is the primary motivation for the creation of iGigBook. I'm a musician and I own a large number of fake books and the challenge for me has always been, given a list of tunes I may perform, getting all of the music together in one place so that I can use it effectively. To meet this challenge prior to iGigBook, I created a physical binder with just the index pages of all of the books I owned and when I needed to find a tune, I would consult the index of each book to see if the tune was in it. Once I located the songs, I would make copies of pages or print copies from PDF versions of the books to create a “gig book" that I would play from. The problem with this was that it seems that on every gig, tunes tend to get called that are not in the book I created but may be in a book that I own but did not bring. iGigBook solves this problem by giving me access to my entire song library, literally thousands of songs in seconds." Phil Smith, creator and developer of iGigBook:
iGigBook does not include any PDF books; the musician must provide their own books.
iGigBook is currently available for sale on the iTunes Apps Store for $9.99
