Add Chord Diagrams & Format Your Music - Painlessly!!
Who's This For?
You! If you run a website and want to share your ukulele music or if you're preparing handouts for your uke club's next jam or, heck, if you're an enthusiastic begining player just building your sheetmusic library then this is your tool.
What's It Do?
The JavaScript library reads your preformatted lyrics, finds all the chords, and autotmatically generates a nifty reference fingering chart -- chord diagrams -- while formating your song for easy reading.
So it takes this:
I want to go [G]back to my little grass shack In Kealakekua, [A7]Hawaii I want to [D7]be with all the kanes and wahines That I used to [G]know... so long ago I can [B7]hear the old guitars a-playing[E7] On the beach at Honaunau I can [A7]hear the old Hawaiians saying "Komo [D7]mai no kaua i ka hale welakahau"
[D7]. Shown here's a snippet from “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua”, one of the surprisingly few songs to reference a humu-humunukunukuapua'a (which means "fish with a nose like a pig", but you knew that)And creates this:
That's it!
Click Print and you've got super legible sheet music for your songbook!
Prefer your chord diagrams above the lyrics? Why not? Change one setting and viola!
Wait… what about Tablatures?
Sure. Mix tabs in with your tunes like this. Just :
{c:First Verse}
I'm [F]gonna save a penny
Ev-'ry time I hold you tight
And we're gonna watch the pen-nies [Gm7][Gm7b5][C7]grow____
I'm [Gm]gon-na save a pen-ny
Ev-ry time we kiss good-night
And [C7]dar-ling, when we're [C7]mar-ried we can [F]own a [C7]bun-ga-[F]low:___
{c:Tablature for Chorus}
{start_of_tab}
A|---------0---|---------0-
E|---1-1-1-----|---1-1-1---
C|-0-----------|-0---------
G|-------------|-----------
A|-----------0-0-3-3-1-------
E|---1-1-1-1-----------2-0-----
C|-0---------------------------
G|---------------------------
A|---------1--|---------1------------
E|---3-3-3----|---3-3-3--------
C|-0----------|-0----------------
G|------------|--------------
A|--------1-0----------
E|------------2-1------
C|--0-2-0--------------
G|---------------------
{end_of_tab}
Your tabs get the pretty-up treatment, too, even handling those uneven tablature lines
Can this make songbooks for me?
If you have your own website and can upload some PHP files, then yes, this generates songbooks quite easily. Before boring you with nerdy configuration details take test drive: sample songbook.
You can have your own ukulele "micro-site" running in just a few minutes. Really!
What's included in the "kit"?
- Two versions of the pages -- ready-to-use styled or "barebones" for you to customize.
- Configurable permissions and accounts; you choose whether you want to password protecting your songs or enabling song editing.
- Simple or detailed songbook page (includes auto-complete song search)
- Static example HTML songs (and Dreamweaver Template files)
If that sounds overwhelming, but you still want it, just drop me a line. If you're up for it download the project from GitHub.
OK, I Want It... Now What?
If you have just a few songs to clean-up try the online editor. Read the tips on how to markup your music.
If you want to install this on your website I don't have a “How-To: Easy 5-Minute Installation Guide” (yet), so I'm afraid you'll need to read the Technical Reference.
I Love It, But Need Something Slightly Different…
This project is released under the GNU/GPL. So, yes, you may modify and use it any way you see fit.