I can only relate my own personal experience with popular song layouts that I have used that don't have melodies or lyrics and only chords and a style.

Personally I have found that it is so easy to get totally lost when using just the chords only without any melody or lyric included, and I totally understand the copyright reasons why it can't be included.

The song may have an intro but it can be a pain to determine exactly where the actual intro ends and song or even chorus starts in the chord layout, and unless one is 100% totally familiar with the song it can be a real pain to follow it through from start to finish correctly.

Even if I am 100% familiar with the song I still get lost.

I know everyone's ear is different and it may seem a doddle to do so from the actual writers point of view, but I have found it to be more trouble than its worth.

Martin57
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Last edited by martin57; 02/20/20 01:13 AM.