Original songs posted to chordie

A couple of things..... first off Chordie does not host any actual song files locally, so it is not as simple as just putting them here and then adding them to a songbook.  A "songbook" is essentially just an index of the locations where songs are "actually stored" and they can then be retrieved on demand via the Chordie Songbook.

So in order for you to put your songs (originals) into the system, you will have to have them "hosted" somewhere, then request that they be added to the Chordie index.  Then the links (to the url) will have to be verified and added to the main index (under the artist's name), and then they will be accessible and addable to songbooks inside the Chordie framework.  You will want to publish them wherever you decide to host them in Chopro format in order for the transpose and instrument preferences function to work properly.

Sorry that's the only way I know of to make them available for others to get them into their own songbook here on Chordie.  There may be other applications that will allow your mates to get them, but you would have to do a little research into them and their capabilities.  Personally, I store all my tunes on a local drive in pdf format and send them to my friends via email.  If they keep a folder on their devices with the "setlist" and in order, it is easy to move them around and have them available for gigs or sessions on a tablet etc.. 

I use OnSong for this purpose, and then download them onto my iPad; if your jamming friends have PC's, I'd suggest putting your songs onto a 'read only' folder on DropBox and then pointing an application like "SongSheet Generator" at that folder (works on both PC and Mac). Finally, if your friends are low tech (like mine!!) you can create song sheets in either application and print them out as PDF's ....

Hope that helps!!

Richard

On Chordie, you can click the eye icon to see the song in it's chordpro format - then you can copy this and paste into a text editor of choice to save to DropBox ...

Cheers

Richard