FREE TO DOWNLOAD ChordPro formatted songs
see below for software that can read this open source format
First of my prizes:"
Came across this truly wonderful website that this person has/continues to put a lot of careful time into organizing.**
It is in constant upgrade mode, and has a change log too so you can track tasty songs he’s added
Each of the 1,100+ songs is in PDF, WordDoc, and ChordPro formats
Songs are tagged with stuff like “sing along”, “easy to play”,“which chords”
The website Chordie https://www.chordie.com/ has thousands of songs that can be downloaded in ChordPro format.
It’s also very easy to write your own ChordPro formatted song in any word doc program like note pad or word. The format it’s self has been around since the early 90s
Yes, absolutely. Chordie is good too–I found them to be bare bones, mostly just lyrics, like Ultimate Guitar, YMMV–it depends mightily upon the diligence/knowledge of the person uploading.
This guy from first link, Songbook19, appears to be an entertainer, and his songs include playing tips, links to YouTube, background banter, and chords through all verses. The first link also spins my wheels because he and I have similar tastes…
Here’s an example of how he annotates his songs:
It’s really helpful to know some of those little tips.
There are a couple songs I play where a particular chord is played in a shortened version. In the examples I play, it’s typically at the bass end of that particular chord. In one song, it’s the G chord (you only play the lowest 1 or 2 strings of the chord) and on another, you play the bottom end of a B7 chord. In the context of the song, it strongly simplifies things because the moments where you do this are always quick changes.
Trying to hit the full chord shape on those quick changes always results in a huge mess for me. When I’m in a jam group and folks in the group already “know” these things but I don’t and I have to figure them out on the fly…ugh. I hate that. Most songsheets usually don’t include these kinds of notes. Ultimate Guitar sometimes does include a quick note about which fingering to use for a specific chord. And that’s the way I usually try to make those notes, rather than the lengthy descriptions above.
I do wish Songbook Pro would actually use the chordpro syntax to make the chord boxes display that particular grip. But until then, I have to use simple text notes for it (but I do tend to also write in the chordpro syntax for it because I have hopes that the developer will add that functionality later).
