Peter.
thanks for getting back to me.
Kudos. much appreciated.
the beauty of the tab dialogue i suggest is not to see "the big song picture" , but that each tab correlates to its marker in daw multitrak software.
so the user knows where he/she always is in biab.
for example in biab a tab that says "lead breaK " Or
"violin solo" or "Key change" will correlate with a similar marker in the users daw software. easy peasy.

also the user can flip around easily in a song between song sections.
working in little "song chunks". rather like an arranger might work with a pen and sheet music staffs in the old days.
an arranger doesnt necessarily work from begin to coda of a song , But moving around within parts of the song.
i'm sure "bach" didnt work linearly , and ones ideas often dont come linearly , but as in "wow i just thought of a neat idea for the third bridge".
thus one goes to that "tab" for third bridge.
OR maybe one thinks "oooh how bout a new third bridge" ,
so one sets up a tab titled third bridge and enters the third bridge chords.

The problem with Song Form (which ive tried many times btw and got frustrated ) is there is no text against the various section letters (A, F, N whatever), where one can write in text to correlate with ones daw multitrack markers .(eg verse 3 or bridge 2 or chorus 4 whatever). of course one likes to play each section too.
i find i often "psychologically" get "lost" in the song form , particularly on a long complex song, as in "now where am i " and what is that F letter again ? is that the third break ?
thus i have to resort to pen and paper keeping note of what each section correlates to.

the other "problem" is biab chord sheet is "an up down affair". ive often wondered if instead it (chord view) should be organised like daw software. but with subtle differences.
1. bars/chords in a horizontal time line across the top.
2. instruments down the left hand side.
and then you might ask but there will be a big space . au contraire.
there will be cels where users can right click on and enter parameters "like F5" whether an instrument should play at the spot, or a regen , etc etc. whatever the user wants at that point in the song for that instrument. once again markers would correlate to the daw multitrack software.

Peter i'm not trying to be a "smart A".
why not take a user poll ? asking do you want a tabbed dialogue option (with pipelines nice graphic) or not ?
do you want chord view as a linear option ?
(with graphic example) or not ?
if i lose the poll, c'est la vie.

Peter, if you peruse the user forums over the years you will see new users often bemused that biab doesnt think as in intros/verses/bridges/breaks/choruses/outtro sections. how biab thinks of "chorus" is often confuseing for new users.
now i just ignore it , and use the layers text to keep little notes of where i am in a song.
recently in a very complex song how i kept organised was
i saved a biab file for intro, each verse or break or chorus or the outtro.
i ended up with 10 biab files saved. labelled "verse x" or "bridge y" or whatever, and ended up sorting all the exported audio in my daw software lining all up useing markers that correlated with the biab file names.

i would argue the tabbed idea will be a familiar way of doing things.
cos each tab will denote whatever the user wants it to be ie intro or verse or break or bridge or whatever the user desires. and correlate with the users daw software markers.
another example (and i'm no expert in this ) might be music for picture.
a tab could be for example scene 12 "guitar lead"
or scene 56 "lonely ukelele". whatever. all user defined.
i see tabs as a very usefull feature.

best to you.
i like tabby cats old muso.
ps i got up really really early in the morning to type this. so i'm groggy , please excuse any typos. lol.


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