• Zurf
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Topic: Songwriting / Chordpro question

This might belong in the Songwriting forum.  Then again, maybe not.  If I am making work for the moderators, please accept my apology up front.

I've got a friend who wrote a Country Gospel song.  We cut a demo of it the other day in a buddy's studio (I was on bass - no one is cutting demos with me on guitar yet).  He's had the lyrics laid out for quite a long time, but we just finally got some chords put to it in an arrangement that satisfies him.  Once getting the right folks together in the right place, it went lickety split.  Anyway, I wrote down the chords with the lyrics and would like to send him something that he can use. 

Is chord pro the right way to do that?  If there's not a free or very inexpensive way to do it, I'll just use the good old word word word [Am] word word word [C] method. 

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Re: Songwriting / Chordpro question

Hi Zurf,

If you read James's sticky at the start of the Songwriting section it gives you instructions on how to write to come out 'all nice and purdy'. Two things to note though, it is basically writing in a specific way for a computer to read and convert, so everything must be exactly right for it to work. The receiving programme/site must be set to recognise and do the convertion just as Chordie is.

The start instruction is [song  and the finish is [/song], you wil note that I have deliberately omitted the ] from the start command to prevent it from trying to convert this message.

There used to be a site called "By The Chord" that you could upload your song and then print it converted but that has now closed down but someone may know another site that you can do this.

I hope that is of some help,

Roger

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Re: Songwriting / Chordpro question

Ty this website http://webchord.sourceforge.net/ copy and paste from word and it's converts to chordpro or simular and you can print it off.

Ark

  • aj1
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Re: Songwriting / Chordpro question

Is it not easier to just type the chord in bold where it's required ?

  • Zurf
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Re: Songwriting / Chordpro question

Thanks!  I'm leery of posting the song on Chordie because it isn't my song and I haven't got permission from my friend.  If I get permission from my friends, I'll post it here crediting them.   

I'll check out that web site to see if it can do what I need.

Thanks again.

- Zurf

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude