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Create a special purpose forum for sharing chord charts for directly pasting into the lead sheet #646834 03/15/21 07:37 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 273 Germany Museeker OP Apprentice
OP Museeker Apprentice Joined: May 2010 Posts: 273 Germany	Hello all, @Peter Gannon & PGM guys lately I learned to love the copy and paste feature of chords from the Lead Sheet view of BiaB. I am convinced, that ease of copying and pasting the chords from one sheet to another empty one is a perfect time saver for all of us, if we start sharing these amongst us in a special forum. Please consider the following idea. Let´s have a forum for promoting the sharing of chord charts, the ones we can create by marking all chords from our lead sheet view and then share it (only the chord, no melodies). We can take advantage of the work another musician made and use it effortlessly. Next time you can be the one, that is profitting from another persons work ;-) I would expect this to give the Band in a Box community a significant boost of activity with such a forum. How does that sound for you? This is how easy it is. I entered the following chords for the Tango "Ole Quappa" - I used the style -Tango^1.STY Tango Style to play it back. Simply copy the chords and paste it in an empty lead sheet - et vóilá...... Chords for Tango "Ole Quappa" [Chords] \|a) Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Dm\| Am\| B7\| E7\| \| Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Dm\| Am\| E7\| Am E7 Am /\| \| F7\| F7\| E..dp\| E..bd\| \|b) E7\| E7\| Am\| Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Am\| \| Dm\| Am\| E7\| Am E7 Am..d /\| \|b) E7\| E7\| Am\| Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Am\| \| Dm\| Am\| E7\| Am E7 Am..d /\| \|a) F7\| F7\| E7\| E7\| \|a) A\| A\| A\| A\| A\| E7\| A\| A\| \| D\| D Dm\| A\| A\| E7\| E7\| A Dm\| A E7 A Am\| \|b) Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Dm\| Am\| B7\| E7\| \| Am\| E7\| E7\| Am\| Dm\| Am\| E7\| Am E7 Am Am..b\| \|a) F7\| F7\| E7\| E7\| \|a) A\| A\| A\| A\| A\| E7\| A\| A\| \| D\| D Dm\| A\| A / D A\| \|a) E7\| E7\| A Dm\| A..\| \|a) A\| [ChordsEnd] Hope you all like that idea sas much as I do :-) Cheers Stefan DAW: Studio One 6.2 Pro Interfaces: StudioLive AR12c, Scarlett 8i6 Windows 11 Professional AMD Ryzen 9 4900H, 16GB, 3,30 GHz

Re: Create a special purpose forum for sharing chord charts for directly pasting into the lead sheet Museeker #646846 03/15/21 08:06 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 24,711 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 24,711 Hamlin NY	I think this is a good idea. If one wants the chord progression of someone's song this would be the place to place it. However I would not copy and paste the chords. I suggest that you change that to adding the SGU file. It would contain the style and chords already in the BiaB format. +1 for that. OK, a random thought; Why does toilet paper need a commercial? Who's not buying it? 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: Create a special purpose forum for sharing chord charts for directly pasting into the lead sheet Museeker #646863 03/15/21 09:18 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 273 Germany Museeker OP Apprentice
OP Museeker Apprentice Joined: May 2010 Posts: 273 Germany	Anything that get´s to the goal of avoiding double work for entering chord progressions and promotes the joy of legal sharing i will be fine with :-? Cheers Stefan DAW: Studio One 6.2 Pro Interfaces: StudioLive AR12c, Scarlett 8i6 Windows 11 Professional AMD Ryzen 9 4900H, 16GB, 3,30 GHz

Re: Create a special purpose forum for sharing chord charts for directly pasting into the lead sheet Museeker #646980 03/15/21 04:22 PM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,063 Springfield, MO Joseph Land Expert
Joseph Land Expert Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,063 Springfield, MO	PGMUSIC. I also believe this is a great idea and submit a vote FOR adding this feature. JCLAND BIAB2026 Windows 10 Pro (Never Windows 11!) WA6NCB

Re: Create a special purpose forum for sharing chord charts for directly pasting into the lead sheet Museeker #647013 03/15/21 09:24 PM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,094 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,094 Melbourne, Australia	A sharing of chords in one form or another could be very beneficial. +1 BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.

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