How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

How to use digital sheet music with Drawboard PDF

Here are 6 ways that you can use digital sheet music to work faster and more collaboratively, without paper.
Tessa Marano

Want to mark up digital sheet music and collaborate on music with others?

For musicians, music teachers and composers, writing and marking up sheet music can not only be time consuming, it can chew through a lot of paper. But, luckily we can avoid paper, and work more efficiently by using digital sheet music instead of pen and paper.

The environmental benefits of avoiding paper are evident. For every 17 reams of paper not used we can save a whole tree and 50kg of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

Go paperless with your music!

Here are 6 ways that you can use digital sheet music to work faster and more collaboratively, without paper. Note: the tips in this blog post can each be done in Drawboard PDF. With Drawboard PDF, musicians, music teachers and composers can use digital sheet music to write music in a way that feels like pen on paper, but without any paper in sight. You can download the app here.

1. Use digital sheet music templates

Access a range of blank sheet music templates including music stave and guitar tab templates from the Drawboard PDF template library. In Drawboard PDF you can also add your own custom sheet music template, or add any document as a template to mark up or edit.

2. Mark up sheet music using digital ink

Use your mouse, finger or stylus to mark up blank digital sheet music. Add note symbols with the ease and feel of pen on paper.

3. Keep a library of music notes and symbols

Want to work faster? Add your treble clef, bass clef, notes and all other music symbols to your markup library. You can then access your markup library from any of your documents and add notes and symbols to your sheet music with the click of a finger.

4. Edit existing sheet music

Upload sheet music and mark up using your mouse, or finger or stylus on your touch screen or desktop. Any PDF document can be uploaded to Drawboard PDF and edited.

5. Collaborate with others on your music documents

Working with others on your compositions? Need to share documents with music students, colleagues, band mates or friends? Invite collaborators to view and mark your music. No need to be in the same location - collaborators can see markups as they happen with live sync!

6. Access your sheet music and markups on any of your devices, anywhere

No need to carry around sheets and sheets of paper. Make your music digital and save time (and trees) by keeping all of your music documents in one centralized location. Easily edit and review with a host of digital markup tools that are designed to help you go paperless. Utilize tools like pens, highlighters, erasers and more.

Drawboard PDF’s collaboration capabilities are perfect for sharing between teacher and students, between colleagues or anyone you share your music with.

Drawboard PDF is collaborative PDF software that is designed to be better than pen and paper. And it’s not just for musicians. Drawboard PDF helps individuals and teams review, edit and collaborate on PDF documents with ease.

Want to mark up digital sheet music and collaborate on music with others?

For musicians, music teachers and composers, writing and marking up sheet music can not only be time consuming, it can chew through a lot of paper. But, luckily we can avoid paper, and work more efficiently by using digital sheet music instead of pen and paper.

The environmental benefits of avoiding paper are evident. For every 17 reams of paper not used we can save a whole tree and 50kg of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

Go paperless with your music!

Here are 6 ways that you can use digital sheet music to work faster and more collaboratively, without paper. Note: the tips in this blog post can each be done in Drawboard PDF. With Drawboard PDF, musicians, music teachers and composers can use digital sheet music to write music in a way that feels like pen on paper, but without any paper in sight. You can download the app here.

1. Use digital sheet music templates

Access a range of blank sheet music templates including music stave and guitar tab templates from the Drawboard PDF template library. In Drawboard PDF you can also add your own custom sheet music template, or add any document as a template to mark up or edit.

2. Mark up sheet music using digital ink

Use your mouse, finger or stylus to mark up blank digital sheet music. Add note symbols with the ease and feel of pen on paper.

3. Keep a library of music notes and symbols

Want to work faster? Add your treble clef, bass clef, notes and all other music symbols to your markup library. You can then access your markup library from any of your documents and add notes and symbols to your sheet music with the click of a finger.

4. Edit existing sheet music

Upload sheet music and mark up using your mouse, or finger or stylus on your touch screen or desktop. Any PDF document can be uploaded to Drawboard PDF and edited.

5. Collaborate with others on your music documents

Working with others on your compositions? Need to share documents with music students, colleagues, band mates or friends? Invite collaborators to view and mark your music. No need to be in the same location - collaborators can see markups as they happen with live sync!

6. Access your sheet music and markups on any of your devices, anywhere

No need to carry around sheets and sheets of paper. Make your music digital and save time (and trees) by keeping all of your music documents in one centralized location. Easily edit and review with a host of digital markup tools that are designed to help you go paperless. Utilize tools like pens, highlighters, erasers and more.

Drawboard PDF’s collaboration capabilities are perfect for sharing between teacher and students, between colleagues or anyone you share your music with.

Drawboard PDF is collaborative PDF software that is designed to be better than pen and paper. And it’s not just for musicians. Drawboard PDF helps individuals and teams review, edit and collaborate on PDF documents with ease.

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About Drawboard

We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.

Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.

Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.

At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.

About Drawboard

We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.

Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.

Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.

At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.

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