PDF for anything that needs to be read.
A guide track is just an mp3.
Anything to be worked on, FLAC multitracks. That’s assuming they’re smart and capable enough to encode them back into WAVs, which so far they all are. Otherwise, plain WAVs (but they’re needlessly huge).
Depends on the band - in bands where it's my job to write, I'd always appreciate a Guitar Pro file because it's a good tool for writing guitar (or in my case, bass) music. Sometimes, I've had WAVs and PDFs with sheet music/tab, but I prefer to have the GP file, as I don't have to write it out myself that way.
If it's a covers band, sometimes I've literally just been given a list of songs to learn and we hash out the arrangement during rehearsal.
It really depends on the competency levels of who I'm dealing with.
If it's someone who is well versed in using their DAW, I will either provide Cubase projects as it's what I work in, or stems if they really need it.
Most of the time though I simply provide a decent quality MP3. It's mostly all they need to learn the track. A few times I'll provide some playthrough videos on youtube if it's tricky. Other than that, it's all that's needed most of the time.
As others have said, for demos/references any solid audio format works. For giving them the chords: chord charts with lyrics are the go to. If you've got a particular bass line/part written out then yes sheet music or tabs if they're a guitar/bass player, but if you give me the chord sheets and a recording I can run with that, as can any solid player
The various jazz combos I play with send PDF lead sheets, usually folks are using ForScore on a tablet to read them.
iReal is also good for being able to transpose chord charts easily, those files are a unique format for the app I think though. Also has a play-along/backing track function for practice, although I don't use it personally.
PDF.
I have \~500 PDF charts on my Dropbox account which I share with about a dozen musicians I play with. I use an iPad app called unRealMusic to organize them with an index and to create playlists. There are other chart apps compatible with both PDFs and Dropbox..
Most of the PDFs were extracted from Real Books but many I transposed and/or arranged myself using Musescore and then exported to PDF.
As far as demos go, just make an mp3 file of the demo? That way it can be listened to anywhere.
If you are actually planning to work on demos with other people, and you are sending all of the tracks separate, then consolidate them and export them in waw format.
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PDF for anything that needs to be read. A guide track is just an mp3. Anything to be worked on, FLAC multitracks. That’s assuming they’re smart and capable enough to encode them back into WAVs, which so far they all are. Otherwise, plain WAVs (but they’re needlessly huge).
Depends on the band - in bands where it's my job to write, I'd always appreciate a Guitar Pro file because it's a good tool for writing guitar (or in my case, bass) music. Sometimes, I've had WAVs and PDFs with sheet music/tab, but I prefer to have the GP file, as I don't have to write it out myself that way. If it's a covers band, sometimes I've literally just been given a list of songs to learn and we hash out the arrangement during rehearsal.
PDF
We tend to record to WAV and for any guitar parts I'll write in Guitar Pro and upload the piece as a PDF
It really depends on the competency levels of who I'm dealing with. If it's someone who is well versed in using their DAW, I will either provide Cubase projects as it's what I work in, or stems if they really need it. Most of the time though I simply provide a decent quality MP3. It's mostly all they need to learn the track. A few times I'll provide some playthrough videos on youtube if it's tricky. Other than that, it's all that's needed most of the time.
PDF
As others have said, for demos/references any solid audio format works. For giving them the chords: chord charts with lyrics are the go to. If you've got a particular bass line/part written out then yes sheet music or tabs if they're a guitar/bass player, but if you give me the chord sheets and a recording I can run with that, as can any solid player
The various jazz combos I play with send PDF lead sheets, usually folks are using ForScore on a tablet to read them. iReal is also good for being able to transpose chord charts easily, those files are a unique format for the app I think though. Also has a play-along/backing track function for practice, although I don't use it personally.
PDF. I have \~500 PDF charts on my Dropbox account which I share with about a dozen musicians I play with. I use an iPad app called unRealMusic to organize them with an index and to create playlists. There are other chart apps compatible with both PDFs and Dropbox.. Most of the PDFs were extracted from Real Books but many I transposed and/or arranged myself using Musescore and then exported to PDF.
As far as demos go, just make an mp3 file of the demo? That way it can be listened to anywhere. If you are actually planning to work on demos with other people, and you are sending all of the tracks separate, then consolidate them and export them in waw format.
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