1,901 Topic by James McCormick

(13 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Chordie is a beautiful brainchild that is maturing into a respected and popular resource.  The 'Publish Songbook' feature is fantastic.


Ideally, each published songbook should contain well-groomed versions of well-loved songs.  However, some users simply slap together a long laundry list of tunes and their songbook selections contain numerous errors.


The recently-added 'Edit' function is not very hard to use.  It allows songbook publishers to clean-up and fix any problems prior to posting their selections.


My Suggestion:

Songbook Publishers; Out of respect to the original artist (and other Chordie users), take a few minutes and clean up the tunes you intend to share.  Correct the layout, lyrics, and chords prior to posting your selections.


A songbook containing just a few nicely edited selections is far more useful than a monster-sized songbook full of mistakes and indecipherable songsheets.


In short - - - Public Songbooks: More Quality, Less Quantity

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1,902 Reply by James McCormick

(16 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Try this:

Whenever you want some space (like between verses), simply use the 'comment' command and insert some dots or dashes:


Verse 1

{c: . . . .}

Verse 2

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1,903 Reply by James McCormick

(1 replies, posted in Electric)

My humble suggestion:  "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC.

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1,904 Reply by James McCormick

(8 replies, posted in Song requests)

Perhaps this is way out of your frame of reference, but check out "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster (the Bob Dylan of his day).  It is an old standard from the late 1800's and besides having a beautiful lyric, the melody is lovely and the chords are relatively simple.


There are several good websites dedicated to Foster's legacy, some have recordings.  I have (I think) attached a lyric/chord sheet that may be helpful.

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1,905 Reply by James McCormick

(2 replies, posted in Song requests)

Here is some help on "Sad and Deep as You"


The chords are a simple Em, G, D, C progression which cycles twice through for each of song's four verses (lips, smile, eyes, tears).


{Em}Lips . . . . {G}warm . . . .

{D}Lips . . . . {C}soon,

{Em}Lips . . . . {G}story,

{D}Sad . . . . {C}deep . . .


This is a beautiful song.  An old favorite of mine.  It was on the 'Welcome to the Canteen' by Traffic from 1971. 


Hope this is helpful for you.

Happy Jamming!

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