IReal pro for chord charts and backing practice.
Chord AI is good for “what’s the chords in this YouTube video”
https://www.sheetmusicscanner.com is useful for I have sheet music I want to put into guitar pro on the desktop.
Scan; export as musicml; import on desktop. Cleanup.
8Strummer - getting new strum pattens down can be a challenge and this gives a useful visual
Agree here.
Spend your time making sure you are protected against ransomware with good offline backups and able to recover your practice. Keep your payments separate from your comms machine.
Your job is going to have lots of shady things to click on/invoice/etc
Plan for it so a malicious client/infected evidence/mistaken click doesn’t take down your practice.
I’m 25y into this as a technologist and still make mistakes on “oh this will be quick”. Make sure your time sinks are 100% aligned with your business. Think of automation / value and you’ll have the right mindset.
If you find the tech side fascinating, there’s always demand for good tech lawyers and lawyer comms are entryways into technology management.
The closest I ever got to this story was working help desk in 1996. A user called up saying they had deleted the Internet.
Took me a while to understand he dragged “the Internet” to the recycle bin on the desktop.