What do singers and choirs need from a music stand?
A singer wants to look up, not down. Holding a folder and turning a page takes a hand and a glance, and in a choir a turn is a rustle that the microphone hears.
A choir needs one more thing: everyone on the same bar. The director holds the score, the singers hold parts, and the accompanist plays from the piano. A rehearsal restarts at bar 49 and the whole room flips pages at once.
A singer-songwriter has a different list: lyrics, chords, and the key that fits the voice tonight.
How does it work for a solo singer?
SheetScroll follows voice through the microphone. Open your piece and sing: it turns the page two beats before the end, as your eyes reach for the next line. It does not scroll at a set speed, so a held note or a breath does not push the page ahead.
- Lyrics and chords: open a chord chart, transpose it to your range, set a capo or switch to Nashville numbers. The lyrics stay lined up.
- Setlists: put the evening in order. Each song opens and listens by itself.
- Your own pages: PDFs and scans show as printed, with your markings on each bar.
Sound is analyzed on the device and never recorded.
How can a choir's pages turn together?
With Play together, one device listens and everyone else's pages turn with it over Wi-Fi. The leader's device might sit by the accompanist. The singers follow on their own devices, each with its own copy of the piece.
Set it up in the rehearsal room before the singers sit. The director's device shows a code under Lead other devices; each singer scans it, or types the short code, under Follow a leader.
Only bar positions are shared, encrypted. It needs one Wi-Fi network, and nothing goes on the internet. The leading device needs Pro; the devices following it don't.
What about a choir's accompanist?
An accompanist can follow the same way as a pianist. SheetScroll listens to the piano, or follows a digital piano's notes over MIDI. When the director stops and restarts at a letter, it finds the accompanist again, or the accompanist taps the bar.
What are the best setup tips?
- Rehearsal: open the music before the downbeat and let the director restart where they like. SheetScroll finds the place again.
- Choir risers: use half-page or line-by-line view on smaller screens, so the next phrase is always visible.
- Mic placement: a leader's device should sit close to the accompanist or the section it follows.
- Pedal: a Bluetooth pedal works alongside listening for a singer who stands still. A press always wins.
What is free for singers and choirs, and what is Pro?
Free forever: reading in every format, chord charts with transpose and capo, setlists, annotations, and turns by pedal or tap. Pro adds listening, automatic turns and Play together: $5.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $79.99 once.
Questions
Does SheetScroll follow a singing voice?
Yes. It follows voice through the microphone, along with piano, keyboards, strings, woodwinds, brass and guitar.
Can a whole choir use it?
Yes, with Play together. One device listens and everyone's pages turn with it over one Wi-Fi network. Each device follows its own copy.
Is my choir's rehearsal recorded?
No. Sound is analyzed as it arrives and never recorded, stored or sent. Leader mode shares only bar positions, encrypted.
Can I change the key of a song?
Yes, for chord charts: transpose, set a capo or switch to Nashville numbers. The lyrics stay lined up.
What if the choir restarts in the middle?
SheetScroll finds the leader again after a stop or a restart. Tapping the bar you are on tells it at once.
Related
- Church musiciansKeep a service in order, follow every repeat and D.S. through the verses, and put chord charts in the singers' key. Free reader, hands-free turns with Pro.
- BandsPlay together: one device listens and every band member's pages turn with it over Wi-Fi. Setlists, chord charts in any key and Nashville numbers.
- Performers and accompanistsA page turner that is never early, with half-page turns, nothing over the music, a pedal and a swipe, and no network needed. Free reader.
- PianistsA sheet music app for pianists: it listens through the mic or a digital piano over MIDI and turns the page two beats early, never early. Free reader.
- Automatic page turnersEvery way to turn sheet music pages hands-free, from pedals to apps that listen, with the pros and cons of each and how a listening page turner decides.
- Repeats, D.S., D.C. and codaHow to read repeat signs, first and second endings, D.C., D.S., coda and fine in sheet music, with a worked example and how a page turner follows them.
- Opening music filesSheetScroll opens PDFs, photos, MusicXML, MuseScore, Guitar Pro, MIDI, ABC, chord charts and more. How to add them, and pair a scan with a digital copy.
- Digital pianos over MIDIConnect a digital piano by USB or Bluetooth MIDI and SheetScroll follows the notes themselves, with no microphone. Here is how to set it up.
- Page turning appsSheet music apps that turn pages by listening (SheetScroll, Newzik, Smartleggio) or by face and eye gestures (forScore, MobileSheets, SightTune).