Beam Music

Ultimate Drill Book

About this app

The best paperless music app for ensembles! Digitize your entire music library and distribute it to your ensemble in seconds.

IMPORT AND ASSIGN FILES WITH EASE
Import PDFs from Dropbox, Google Drive, and Local Storage
Assign full files or single pages
Crop, cut, and edit parts
Give edit access to student leaders

ANNOTATE YOUR MUSIC
Pencil tool: Draw on the music
Highlighter: Mark key areas
Text tool: Add important notes
Shared notes: Section leaders can add notes for the entire section

STAY IN SYNC WITH LIVE MODE
Activate Live Mode to automatically connect everyone in the ensemble to your device. When you select a piece of music, everyone’s individual parts for that song are instantly displayed on their personal device. All without the need for internet.

ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY
Create a collection of songs
Add songs to a set list in a specific order
Add the duration of the song
Back up your library with Beam Backup

Ratings and reviews

For the love of God, please fix the force rotation. The app opens in landscape (good), but as soon as I go into a song it switches back to portrait. Live sessions also take forever to show up for students in some cases, and trying to close out of the menu to pick one often freezes the app. It is usually faster to close and reopen the app over leaving a live session.

So far the app seems good, but the reason I put 2 stars was because of 4 things. (1) I would like the option to make the text boxes smaller, (2) it would be helpful to be able to do vertical screen (right now you can only have it horizontally) on the app, and (3) is it is really hard to mark music on this. (4) And lastly, it's extremely annoying to use during stand tunes because there isn't a lyre you can use to hold your music up, and as a flute I can't just play with one hand.

No screenshots makes it difficult to share annotated music with peers, (share with everyone in app feature not the same because we often have different instructions). Logging out of the app or logging into a new device erases all saved zoom levels. Setting zoom level is restrictive, i want to be able to scroll further to the left/right in many cases but cant. Loading a score with a zoom preset starts zoomed out before zooming in, this is frustrating especially for page turns.

What’s new

New Instrument Parts Added
General Fixes and Improvements