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(14 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Hi Ian,
I have not used Songbird Studio - have a look here and if what Songbird Studio gobbles up or spits out uses this sort of formatting code then you should be OK:

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ChordPro-Markup
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ChordPro

Best wishes,
Lizzie

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(14 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Cheers topdown! :-)

Just hope I have got it all down correctly.

I use Songsheet Generator and some of the formatting directives are non-standard so they don't do too well on Chordie (eg. there is a "footer" directive that is not recognised) but other than that it all went perfectly :-)

I've been to North Carolina BTW - Ashville and Greenville - lovely place!

Best wishes,

Lizzie

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(14 replies, posted in About Chordie)

:-D

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(14 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Hi Roger,

I have just realised that where I found the term was in a post that you made, but that you were referring to a different "tweak" :-)

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic. … 108#p46108

It is the same thread where I found out how to do what I have called the "Chordie Hijack" - oops! :-)

Best wishes,

Lizzie

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(14 replies, posted in About Chordie)

It took me ages to work this out so I have posted some instructions. If anyone spots any errors in these, please let me know.

Chordie Hijack - Part 1 - How to use the Chordie Renderer to format and print your songs
http://ukes4fun.org.uk/2010/08/21/chord … our-songs/

Chordie Hijack - Part 2 - How to "publish"  your own songs using a Chordie Public Songbook:
http://ukes4fun.org.uk/2010/08/21/chord … -songbook/

Hope this is helpful,

Best wishes,

Lizzie

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(9 replies, posted in About Chordie)

I have just tried this and it worked perfectly :-)

Except . . . I have used Songsheet Generator (ChordPro format) and used the {footer} command, which is ignored by Chordie if I print a Songsheet and appears in the text if I print a Songbook.

Do I need to add the commands below, as mentioned in the Songwriting Section http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1957 (or is that a red herring as the songs in this case are not originals, just the versions of popular songs as played by our ukulele club):

[ s o n g ]      * WITHOUT THE EXTRA SPACES!*
                 at the beginning before the {t:title} line

    [ / s o n g ]      * WITHOUT THE EXTRA SPACES!*
                 at the ending after the last line of the lyric


Best wishes,
Liz

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(10 replies, posted in About Chordie)

This seems to work - or have I misunderstood the question - or has the original question been overtaken by changes to Chordie?

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8033

Best wishes,
Liz

Apologies if this is a really dumb question but . . .

if a song requires a capo on the 3rd fret for guitar then do you use a capo on the 3rd fret of the uke after transposing the chords to GCEA uke?

I learned a song from printing the pdf off Chordie and it was only when I exported to Chopro that I saw there was a hidden comment to capo the guitar at the 3rd fret.  So I tried a capo on the 3rd fret of the uke but wasn't keen on the result.

However, in the case of that song, I play it picking the notes rather than playing the full chords and I do not use the full chord shapes (because I can't do them yet!) and it sounds better to me, played that way, without a capo on the uke.

I haven't tried alternate picking patterns to see if that makes a difference as I already play the song on two ukes, an acoustic concert with high G and an electric tenor with low G and the picking needs to be different for the two instruments already.

Best wishes,

Lizzie