Here's a real beginners song, two chords only and just revitalised here in Portugal as it is used as background music to an advert for Portuguese Electricity. This spiritual song was originally recorded by Laurie London in 1958 but I have yet to findout who is singing the new one.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.u … ;id=343288

Roger

Many quality audio microphones/leads have a three pin XLR plug and socket for which adaptors are available to use in 6mm jack socket. There are also 6mm to 3.5mm adaptors available to use direct into a PC soundcard.

So the answwer is yes, if you have no mixer to interface through, you can plug direct into your PC.

Roger

Regretably the BBC iPlayer will not work outside the UK. I have tried, without success, to get it to work here in Portugal several times but I understand that they are working on an International version but it is not available yet.

Roger

A song about unsung heroes! So now they are sung about, courtesy of you Jeff.

Good subject and great song, thank you.

Roger

Welcome Kesmit,

I will answer your second question first. Every single chorded song shown on Chordie can be transposed into whatever key you want it to be in with two button clicks so a search by key is not necessary. Look to the right of the screen for 'Transpose chords' click the button on the right , select how many semi-tones up or down you want then click on that, and you are now in your chosen key.

Your first question I find harder to understand so if I am barking up the wrong tree, I apologise. Many years ago when I was taking piano lessons (a skill sadly long since forgotten) I was taught from a music score where the number of sharps or flats signified the key used, but I gather from a friend that it is possible to play piano/keyboard from just using chords as we do with guitar but I would have thought that a pianist would be able to determine the key himself from the chords used. I do not understand how looking at the source chord chart helps as by looking at the chords used in the song in front of you should tell you what key it is in. For instance if the the predominant chords are Am, C, F and  G7 the key is C. Also in C you will find D, Dm, Em and Bb commonly used too.

After writing that I have just remembered something!! Take a look at: http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8500 the same question was posed and answered in the Theory section a while ago.

Perhaps someone with more understanding of piano/keyboard can help you better with this.

Roger

Thanks Kenny, as I explained in my comments in the recording section the idea came from a remark in the Chat section and, for a change, the lyrics came fairly easy. I wrote the chorus first and the I based the verses on each line of the chorus.

Thank you too, Fellow Winner Ark, I am glad you liked the inclusion of the sound bites and I hope the idea will be useful to you. I put them in as my 'secret weapon' to try to be a little different.

Roger

Nearly there again 06, just the start and finish switches missing and the first G in the second line of the chorus is [G} and should be [G]. Kenny has explained it in his post so I will let you edit this one yourself.

Ooops we where on at the same time and I see you have done it, well done.

I do like this one, thank you.

Roger

Hi 06,

I am not really into praise songs but I did enjoy this one, thank you.

I hope you do not mind but I added the formatting 'switch on' and 'switch off' to the start and end of your song as you had it so nearly there yourself. If you go into 'edit' on your song you can see just what I did to finalize it for you.

Roger

Hi Tom,

Been there, done that and got the T shirt. Sometimes romance works and sometimes it does not, good song though. Thank you.

Roger

Hi Myusollo and welcome to Chodie,

Instead of trying to post a comment please click on 'Correct song' on the bottom right of the page and make the corrections yourself. Not only will the tab then be correct there will be a note at the bottom saying that the song has been improved by you.

As this can be an exacting task it is usually better to transfer it to your Songbook first so you can 'Edit' it (getting rid of all the unecessary 'chaff' that is with it at the same time) and check your amendments at your leisure. You can then 'copy' and 'paste' the re-worked song from your Songbook to the one in the main listings for everyone to see.

Roger