020 - New Electric Pencil

My tablet’s battery will no longer last more than a few hours which doesn’t work when I have to take it to my accompanist gig then from there go direct the mandolin orchestra rehearsal, so we replaced it.

Along with the replacement came a stylus, aka, a new electric pencil.

There ARE some fairly crude AND expensive apps out there that will take handwritten scores and notate them for you. Luckily, I don’t have a use for that.

Much cheaper and way more useful are the apps that will let you upload staff paper and draw music on it. Though I LOVE the look of ink on paper, this has proven to be a much easier method to do these daily tunes.

I threw three tunes down in about 15 minutes using this process. I would’ve posted the first one yesterday it weren’t for battery issues in my Bluetooth mouse.

Here’s the first one:

Crude, but I wasn’t looking for prizes in neatness.