More on marking up text for chordpro applications
To add to Geoff's contribution to this thread, Tenbyten Software has a shareware program called '
Songsheet Generator' that also takes marked-up text files* and converts them into songsheets with the chords above the lyrics etc.
*what Geoff called "chordpro formatted" is nothing more than one of these marked-up text files: chords in [square brackets]; commands in {curly brackets}; hidden comments introduced by #poundsigns.
But here's the thing - if you look up a song on
http://chordie.comhttp://chordie.com, click on the "eye" (view) icon and select 'chordpro', the marked up text file is displayed.
So, for comparison click on the link for chordie.com's version of "
Blue Moon of Kentucky" and compare what you see there with the marked-up text (in code box below):
Code:
{t:Blue Moon Of Kentucky-crd}
{st:Bill Monroe}
#
#
#Subject: Song Submission, Blue Moon Of Kentucky
#
#Blue Moon Of Kentucky, by Mr. Bill Monroe
#
#Elvis and the rockabilly's do this in 4/4, most blugrass players prefer
[3/4] 1st verse
[A]Blue Moon, blue [D]moon
blue [A]moon keep shining[E] bright
Blue [A]moon keep on shining bright
You gonn[D]a bring me back my baby tonight
Blue [A]Moon keep shining[A] bright
2nd Verse
I said blue [A]moon of Kentucky keep on [D]shining
shine on[A] the one that's gone and left me[E] blue
I said blue[A] moon of Kentucky keep on [D]shining
Shine on[A] the one that's [E]gone and left me[A] blue
Bridge
Well it was [D]on one moonlight night
[A]Stars shining bright
[D]Whisper on high
[A]Love said g[E]oodbye
Blue [A]moon of Kentucky keep on [D]shining
Shine [A]on the one [E]that's gone and left me[A] blue
Repeat Second verse
Bridge
The guy who set up chordie has put together this fantastic program intended automatically to create chordpro marked-up text files from any songsheet you find in ultimate-guitar, cowpie.com, etc etc. Inevitably it doesn't always get it right, but what you can do, having clicked, copied and pasted is take that 1st draft from chordie.com and correct it:
Code:
{t:Blue Moon Of Kentucky}
{st:Bill Monroe}
#
#
#Subject: Song Submission, Blue Moon Of Kentucky
#
#Blue Moon Of Kentucky, by Mr. Bill Monroe
#
#Elvis and the rockabilly's do this in 4/4, most bluegrass players prefer 3/4
{c: 1st verse}
[A]Blue Moon, blue [D]moon
Blue [A]moon keep shining [E]bright
Blue [A]moon keep on shining bright
You gon-[D]na bring me back my baby tonight
Blue [A]Moon keep shining [A]bright
{c: 2nd Verse}
In this edited version, I've corrected the spelling of bluegrass (from "blugrass") and taken the square brackets off the time signature, 3/4 and moved it (3/4) back into the hidden comments.
I've put curly brackets round the verse titles, so that they display as visible comments, rather than as lyrics '{c: comment }.
Finally, I edited the lyrics so that "[E] bright" and "[A] bright" became " [E]bright" and " [A]bright" and the [D] chord in "gonn[D]a moved to "gon-[D]na", 'cos I'm a pedant like that.
Save the edited text as a simple text file, run it through songsheet generator, and the result looks like this:
Code:
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
(Bill Monroe)
[I]1st verse[/I]
A D
Blue Moon, blue moon
A E
Blue moon keep shining bright
A
Blue moon keep on shining bright
D
You gon-na bring me back my baby tonight
A A
Blue Moon keep shining bright
[I]2nd Verse[/I]
How you get to keep that formatting in YT description is another question of course #
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