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whether it only recognizes “standard” chord names such as Bm or Cadd9 or Gaug, or should the formater allow people to have chord names like “ G-superDiminishedAdd9“?Īllowing flexible chord names means, for example, that it’s more likely to accept two C chord voicings: standard, first position and then second position (or or ). This is still very much a “beta” tool I’m still trying to “dial in” how forgiving I want my song formater to be, e.g. and something.” because you probably wanted this: “. Import all songs from a iOS alternative backup file. It'll also open files from some iOS apps.
chopro file format (songs are automatically converted into OpenSong format). You know this, I know this, the tools? Not so much. Current song can be looked up on YouTube via search button. Don’t put blank lines between a chord line and its lyrics (unless you want a line of only chords) Chord liness immediately precede their lyrics.If a converter is confused and mixes none-chords into your lyrics add some separation, that is, put some blank lines in. So eschew Times or Arial and use the old stand-by, fixed-width fonts (monospaced) such as Courier or Courier New. Every font, yes, even Comic Sans, has its moment, and when your aligning by columns you need every character to be exactly the same width - something our old Smith-Corona typewriters always did. To your editor they might mean “indent the equivalent of 6 single space characters” whereas on my machines it’s always 4! Since we’re relying on fixed-width columns you need to use spaces. Review! You’ll always check the results from these as they’re never going to be perfect.Now it’s ready for the song sheet editor! Tips
Streets are uneven when you're downĪbove is the same song we saw earlier after running through my ChordPro formatter (colorized-emphasis added). UkeGeeks ChordPro Formater Tool (beta) (see note about why it’s beta)įaces look ugly when you're alone.
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Once the song is set, well, how to prettify it with chord fingering diagrams, etc?įortunately, there are several online ChordPro “formaters” (or importers): Next, some cold readings - playing through slowing - and if that sounds bad, well, I just add/remove spaces between the chords until it’s close (and if you’re going to use this with your uke group it needs to be fairly close or it’ll fall disastrously apart). Instead, I start with what you see above, either by typing or finding it online or opening a PDF, selecting all the text, and then copy-pasting it into a text document. People are strange when you're a stranger So, I dont’ begin with “nicely formatted” text (ChordPro format). The very obvious problem is that setting exactly when (where) to change chords requires playing through the song a few times, and moving that one word or syllable to the right, well, it’s a pain. Confession time: I don’t actually edit my songs by typing chords into the lyrics.
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