Chord display separation

Skitch210

Intro/Solo - chord only section without lyrics the chords are jammed together. Would be nice to have a simple way to have them separated for easier visibility.

peter

Don't write plain chord lines in brackets. Then you can put as many whitespace in between as you want.

Skitch210

peter but then would they transpose?

peter

Yes they would.

Midimannz

Please… How do I place chords within bars, rather than just a bunch of chords?
|C |Am |F G |

Damir

Midimannz you cant place chords within bars as ST3 does not use BARS it simpy uses TIMECODE to program things , a DAW can find your bars and then you can manipulate the song, ST3 cant do that you need to enter a timecode in front of every data point you want to trigger/display.

Damir

Midimannz Please… How do I place chords within bars, rather than just a bunch of chords?
|C |Am |F G |

If You mean you want to highlight a chord at the correct time it is needed?

Then just place your chords in the editor like this as it’s faster and easier to timestamp.

C
Am
F
G

Then time stamp them
[12.05.22]C
[13.11.21]Am
[14.14.14]F
[15.15.15]G

Then place that data on one line with spaces between as required

[12.05.22]C [13.11.21]Am [14.14.14]F [15.15.15]G

Now the chords are on one line and will change colour to you needs and if they are all on the first beat of the bar then they will change at the beginning of every bar as you mentioned you wanted it.
Simple

peter

See here (especially the part about forcing a line to be displayed as chords): https://stagetraxx.com/user-guide/lyrics/#adding-chords

Farnzy

peter Hi Peter,
I always use Chordpro notation. I am switching from Songbook Pro to ST3. I am a little disappointed though that I can no longer insert Chords with only one or two beats eg [Am/] or [Am][///] into a lyric line. Could this feature be added please?

Riff

I use slashes.
| [C]/ / / / | [Am]/ / / / | [F]/ / [G]/ / |

Damir

Riff just place the chords in a single line with spacing but don’t have anything else within that line, simple, there are other ways but this is the basic way.

C Am G F

Riff

Damir The slashes let me know how many beats the chord is for.

Damir

Riff ok I see, normally I use my ears to when a chord change is needed and I use the highlighted chord so I can easily see the chord on screen and I program it to highlight slightly early so it shows me the next chord but I use my ears and the feel of the song to make the exact change to suit the music backing, sometimes having to much information spoils the pleasure of playing a live instrument it makes you a robotic performer which spoils the fun in playing, I always try to explain to people if I see a performer that performs perfectly I might as well stay home and listen to a cd recording.
So let your hair down and live a little, take a chance of changing the song to your interpretation on the run cause that’s the fun of it.
Good luck with it.

Riff

Damir Time code each chord? I definitely don't have that much time 🙂 If I'm playing to a track, I don't want to change the song to my interpretation. I do appreciate the sentiment though!

Damir

Riff i agree it takes time and i hate wasting time, but its well wort it if its a song thats coplicated and you dont play it often, placing slashes is also a time consuming thing but gives you no real value as its not synced to anything you migt as well use PDF thats just the same as having a piece of paper in front of you, it does nothing else, using highlighting and timecoding actually gives you power to jump around a song and quickly have all the information right there in big format letering that stands out at a distance.You could go to extreme visual help by timecoding every slash/beat if you leally need accurate guidance but that would be going in to time wasting i only use that if a song has no backing audio present so it visually keeps me in touch with the return to audio point, but now we have loops i can easily pause and cue up my next audio segment and trigger it to start whenever i want and i use the visual metronome to keep me it time so i can flirt around a bit and even if i skip a beat or two in a long blank segment it does not matter as long as i come back in time .
This is freedom to create and not be locked in to slashes.

peter

You can force lines to be displayed as chords no matter what they contain. See here: https://stagetraxx.com/user-guide/lyrics/#adding-chords