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Ultimate Drill Book

About this app

NEW
• Jump forward or backward, pause or reset your drill with intuitive Control Wheel
• See drill in light and dark mode, set automatically from your preferences.
• Annotate directly on your drill, place links and organize text notes with Field Notes and Design Notes
• Access a full suite of admin-granted features via Smart Access.
• NEW: Update licenses or access in UDB, and changes are reflected across all Arc products
• Customize your experience, without leaving the drill, with quick settings and widgets
• Tap any performer to view photo, coordinate, page information and attendance status via Geo.

Features for Members
• Watch the drill animation while listening to the music from any perspective (performer or director)
• View your individual coordinate sheet for sets in a song or counts in a set
• Follow your drill count by count with live updating coordinates
• See curved and straight-line path information for previous and next sets

Features for Admins and Staff
• Change field perspective (performer/director)
• Easily add/delete/edit drill files in your ensemble's account directly from the app
• Learn and clean drill just seconds after it has been exported from Pyware by the designer
• One tap access to Beam for sheet music, and Geo for attendance

Differentiators
• Unlimited drill uploads from Pyware, the best-in-class drill design software
• Phone layout designed for one handed use
• Easily find your halfway points and yard line crossing counts
• Easily switch between custom views

Tap ID
Tap ID allows directors to see the performer labels that members have selected. Simply tap on a performer's dot while viewing the drill to see their name, photo, page information and attendance status. Multiple students can select a single performer label, so directors can easily see and manage alternates, shadows, and primary performers.

Geo Calendar & Attendance
See full rehearsal and performance schedule, check-in to events with multiple locations, and track attendance throughout the season. Use Live Attendance to get a real-time view of who is at rehearsal and who is not.

Offline Mode
Restrict access to Ultimate Drill Book if selected users are connected to the internet. If not activated, all users will be able to access Ultimate Drill Book even if connected to a WiFi or cellular connection.

Ratings and reviews

The drastic difference from dot cards to this app is amazing, especially when you wish you could visualize what the band looks like in every set. It makes memorizing learning holds and moves with music way easier, especially when you're trying to play a quad solo without getting curb stomped by the drum tech at the same time as marching. I highly recommend!!

Why... did they need to update? The original app looked and worked great, had everything in one place, and most importantly worked. Now it's just a buggy mess, can't change dots without desync or "contacting the server", why do you need to contact the server to change a dot nobody else sees? Splitting up the functionality to separate apps certainly was a choice too. Hopefully all these bugs can be fixed by real code, not more prompts to a overworked LLM.

I don't know which educators they asked, but I'm an educator and I don't trust this new app one bit. A week ago, the app updated and signed me out. Still can't login back in. I click "continue with Google" and the wheel just spins forever. The old app worked just fine. The new app is unnecessarily over designed and broken. Maybe consider testing your app for more than just iPhone, especially for kids in marching band programs that use Android and other options.

What’s new

General Improvements and Bug Fixes