Sheet music for the stand

The singer changed the key.
Your chart already did.

Change the key or the instrument and StageScore re-engraves the music on the spot — notation, chord symbols, key signature, accidentals. No new file. No mental transposition.

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As written · Reading in C

“Wolverine Blues”, Jelly Roll Morton (1923) — public domain

Performer views

One song. Different players.
The view each of them needs.

The horns take the notation in their own key. The bass and guitar switch to Chords — a bar grid big enough to read in stage light, no melody to squint past. Singers take the Lyrics sheet.

Same chart, same setlist, same book. Only the reading changes.

The same tune switched to Chords, a grid of chord symbols

The same tune switched to Lyrics, the words in large type for the singer

Score — for the horns

“When the Saints Go Marching In”, traditional spiritual — public domain

Bring your library

Don't rebuild your library.
Bring it with you.

Already have years of charts elsewhere? Bring the music you already use into StageScore and keep it alongside your new charts, setlists and Band Books — same library, same search, nothing retyped.

Import from your device, cloud storage, or compatible chart libraries.

Transposable

MusicXML & StageScore charts

Stay structured and transposable.

Any key, any instrument
Score, Chords and Lyrics views
Backing band reads the changes

Shown as the page

PDFs

Stay exactly as imported, alongside everything else.

Annotate, file and set-list it
Goes in a Band Book like any chart
Stays in its printed key — or read it into a chart (below)

Other compatible chart formats can be imported too.

Read the page · Beta

Or let it read the page.

StageScore reads the music off a PDF page — notes, rhythm, the key, the chord symbols — into a chart you can put in any key, hear, and drop into a setlist.

Reading is new, so it never asks you to take its word for it: the page sits above every line it read, and it counts each bar and flags the ones worth a second look. Fixing them is the editor below.

A PDF part read into notation: each line of the page sits above the music read from it, with one thing flagged to check

The same reading after the key was corrected to two sharps: the notes it moved are marked, and everything is checked

A second chart, Body and Soul, read from its page with three things flagged to check

Body and Soul after its key was corrected to five flats: the re-spelled notes are marked

Read from the page — one thing to check

“Bye Bye Blackbird” (1926) and “Body and Soul” (1930) — public domain in the US

Edit

A wrong note?
Fix it where you read it.

Open a chart in the editor and change what's wrong — notes, rests, accidentals, ties, barlines and repeats, the key, the meter, the chord symbols. It points out what's worth checking and walks you through it, bar by bar.

Same paper, same handwriting as the score you were just reading. For lead sheets and single-line parts — piano and multi-part scores stay as they are.

The StageScore note editor open on Wolverine Blues: a key card to confirm or change, a selected note with its bar checked for beats, and a palette of note values, rests, accidentals and barlines

Your library, the way you want it. Now get it to every stand.

Band Books

One band book.
Every stand stays current.

The bandleader builds the book and sets the running order. Everyone else joins with a six-digit code — read it out at rehearsal and that's the whole invite. Change the set and every stand has it.

Nobody turns up with last month's version, and each player still reads in their own key, on their own instrument, in the view they need.

A Band Book named Jazz Quartet with two members and a four-tune repertoire in running order

One app on the stand

One app once the count-in starts.

The chart stays in front of you. Everything you need around it is one tap away — marks, tuning, tempo, the road map, the next tune in the set. Nothing that makes you put the music down mid-number.

A chart being marked up in StageScore: a phrase boxed, a bar highlighted, dynamics dropped from the nuance palette, structure labels dragged onto bars, and a cue handwritten across the page

A real session — pen, highlighter, nuances, structure, then the cue in your own hand

The tuner open over the chart, set to 440 Hz

Tuner — reference pitch 440 Hz

Notes

The road map

Prepared transitions, the intro from soundcheck, who solos, how it ends. Per song or per gig.

Annotate

Marks that follow the music

Annotations are anchored to the bars, so they stay put when you transpose or switch parts. With an Apple Pencil, just start writing.

Practice

Backing band

Bass, drums, keys and guitar read the changes in tonight's key, at your tempo. Pick the feel, the kit and the instruments.

Tuner

Chromatic, adjustable

Reference pitch you can move off 440, open over the music without losing your place.

Metronome

Takes the written tempo

Reads the marking off the chart, so the count-in is the tune's, not a guess.

Offline

No signal required

Install it once and the library is on the device. Venue Wi-Fi is optional.

Sync

Every device, one library

Sign in and each device sends up what you changed and picks up what you added elsewhere, every time you open it. Marks on a chart follow within seconds.

StageScore on a Mac, the same chart in a desktop window — Mac at home, iPad on the stand, iPhone in your pocket — one library, on all of them

StageScore on an iPad, showing a full lead sheet with the sidebar — Mac at home, iPad on the stand, iPhone in your pocket — one library, on all of them

Why it exists

Built because transposing charts on stage is a pain.

StageScore started with one very specific problem: I'm a saxophonist, and I was tired of transposing in my head when a singer changed key or I'd brought a different horn. From there every feature came from asking the same question — what else forces the band to leave the music during a gig?

One song. Different players.The view each of them needs.

Don't rebuild your library.Bring it with you.