ContiNote Keeps Scores, Recordings, and Rehearsal Notes Together

Once everyone has plugged in at the rehearsal room, you want to get straight to the first song. First, though, someone has to find the score. Someone else searches YouTube for the reference recording, and the singer scrolls through the group chat to check the key and ending you agreed on last time. Everyone has prepared the same song, yet you’re all looking at different screens.

Rehearsal involves more than playing in tune. You have to agree on the arrangement, the singer’s key, the entry cues, and the ending. When the materials live in different places, so do those decisions. It’s a shame to spend the time you’ve set aside to play together looking for things.

ContiNote makes sense in exactly that situation. It organizes scores, recordings, lyrics, chords, and playing notes by song. For musicians in an after-work band or a worship team, the value is being able to pick up at the next rehearsal with everything they prepared last time close at hand.

Keep everything for a song in one place

A song can hold a PDF or photo of the score, an MP3 or YouTube video, lyrics, and playing notes. You can also record the opening chord and tempo. You can listen to a recording, check the score, then refer to the lyrics and notes without leaving the song.

Opening the song saves you from hunting down a recording or sorting through several scores with similar filenames. You can mark up PDFs with a pen and highlighter, and annotations are saved by page. A tricky measure or a cue you settled on at rehearsal will be there the next time you practice.

The official short video shows how this might work in practice. On the way to rehearsal, you can listen on your phone and check the lyrics. In the rehearsal room or on stage, you can open the score on a tablet. The preparation you started before picking up your instrument carries into rehearsal.

Keep your hands on your instrument

Once you start playing, even a spare hand can be hard to come by. In landscape score view, a tap toggles automatic scrolling based on the tempo. The app remembers the last scroll speed for each song. It also supports Bluetooth page turners.

There’s a tuner for guitar and bass, and the lyrics screen includes a visual metronome that flashes in time with the tempo. The transposition helper uses the starting chord and the interval you specify to calculate a reference chord. The score file itself stays as it is.

You could use separate tools for each of these jobs. ContiNote puts them alongside the materials for the song, making it easier to get back to what you were practicing after a quick check.

Put the songs in the order your band will play them

Add songs to Favorites and arrange them to make a rehearsal list. From a song’s detail screen, you can jump to the previous or next favorite. Continuous playback follows the list, which is handy when you want to listen through a set before a show.

With Pro, you can send a practice set and its materials to another device running ContiNote. The recipient can apply it as their current Favorites list. That saves you from sending the order and the materials separately. Sharing requires a sender and a recipient. It is a transfer between devices, not a collaborative editor that automatically synchronizes teammates’ changes in real time.

The free Basic plan supports up to 20 songs. That gives a band member room to keep a rehearsal set’s scores, recordings, and notes together and use the core practice tools. Pro is available if you need more songs, multiple Favorites lists, or the ability to send a practice set. ContiNote is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Rehearsal is where everyone listens, works through the parts that don’t quite fit, and finds the band’s own way of playing a song. ContiNote helps with the preparation around that work. When the score, recording, and notes from last time are all beside the song, everyone knows where to pick up.