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(2 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Try to add the songs to your own songbook, then print.  Or, you can highlight the part that you want to print, and the choose "print selected" on the print control screen.

Hope this helps.

Sounds like I opened a can of worms or some thing like it...  Nela, I haven't seen it explained that way, but it certainly works, and I like it.  The way I learned is roman numeral "I" is the root of the major scale.  a small "ii" would mean a minor cord, and a viidim is the 7th diminished. 

For you that don't get it, it is really easy, once you picture it.  Remember, it's just a scale. 

It is useful if you play with other people, and they learned a songe in G, but you learned it in C.  Oh crap, if you can't transpose quickly, or don't have a capo handy, your not going to be able to keep up. 

But imagine you know the songs cord progression as " I  V  IV  V  I" or "1  5  4  5  1", you can change keys really easy.  In G it would be "G  D  C  D  G"  and in C it would be "C  G  F  G  C"  and in A it would be " A  D  E  D  A".  YOu get the idea.  (Refer to Nela's post)   

THe folks that let me play with them call the key for a particular song to fit the vocal range of whoever's turn it is to sing.  I can sing some songs in G, but some I have to do in C, even though they might not of been recorded that way. 

I hope I haven't totally confused ya'll.

JRW

For those of us that know just enought to be dangerous, it would be excellent if the transposing engine could make the chords print out in number format, rather than name.  You know, I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii7, ect.  Is this possible, or is it already in the Chordie vocabulary?  Thansk, and I love the site!