I use my laptop screen quite a lot when practicing, etc. having made the decision to go "paperless office" way back in the late 80s.

Some folks like it, some don't, for various cited reasons. Some, I think, just don't want to change from that which they are used to using, namely printed paper.

I don't have a problem with it, took only about a week of using the laptop screen instead of printed paper.

All of my printed fakebooks have been scanned to .pdf files, I find that opening Windows Search and minimizing same, with a bit of practice I can look at the one .pdf file that is the Master Index of all the fakebook songs in the folder, using the .pdf Find feature to quickly type in one word from the song title, then opening the proper file and using the Page number block entry, hit Enter, there's the song, to be faster than the people who still drag the paper fakebooks to the game.

I did find that I had to work up my ability to keep on playing while reaching and hitting the "pg dn" button before what is displayed is history. I now consider that to be the same as a paper page turn, and here again, now is much faster than reaching up and dealing with the paper page.

My laptop also never has the problem of a paper sheet flipping itself back or if outdoors, the wind problem that necessitates the paper hold down clips or the old frugal but time-consuming use of paper clips.

That said, try to internalize each song you want to play out live in performance, get away from using the sheet as soon as you possibly can. This is one of those things that takes time and practice to accomplish, but also gets easier and faster to do over time if you start forcing that discipline from the beginning.


--Mac

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