Sections of songs repeat, but that doesn’t mean the chords (and other elements) are exactly the same in each one. Most pop songs I hear have slight variations in chords in otherwise similar verses. I don’t see any recognition of that on the “tabbed view”.

And it’s not just chords, everything can vary (at least slightly) from verse to verse, like the melody, lyrics, instrumentation etc.
The best solution to that is a linear representation (one chorus) where you can customize any part because it gets its own bar number, Then you get a singer to record audio over the whole song, and that spans several of the sections, and it’s a mess as you now have a linear recording and a section based “tabbed view”.

My first sequencer in the 1980s was Texture, a pattern based sequencer that divided everything into parts. It worked to make songs that had exactly repeating sections, but I couldn’t use that concept on most songs I wanted, since they varied slightly and they weren’t just repeating loops.


Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.