151

(41 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

In the 80's, when synths kicked in and killed the music business for acoustic instrumentalists, we used to toss this one around:

Q.  What's the definition of an "optimist?"
A.  A trombonist with a beeper.

This era was very hot for wedding bands.  Here in New York, the agencies that booked "pick-up" bands (throw- togethers that actually sounded very good sometimes) they could never find enough "leaders" for these bands.  Often, the band leader would be some obnoxious, arrogant dude with extremely limited vocal ability but an appropriately large set of cojones to handle all the corny MC work and, perhaps, yell his way through the wedding couple's first dance.  One of the most popular jokes to emerge from this era was:

Q.  What's the difference between a wedding band and a bull?
A.  A bull has the horns up front and the a-hole in the back.

152

(13 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Go with mekidsmom's advice regarding Chordpro.  That will give you the lyrics and chords without the table, which is what's causing your problems.

The only problem you may come across is when you transpose a song in regular Chordie view, the Chordpro version will still be in the original key.  To solve this problem, cut and paste the song into the window on this site link removed which is an automatic transposer.  Then, after going through the motions to transpose the song, cut and paste the final version into MS Word.

153

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Hmm.  Both the ChoPro solution and the Word Pad solution work just fine.  I'm learning a heck of a lot about Chordie today.  Thank you, everybody!

154

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

OK, I just realized that I left a very important piece of information out of my "complaint."  This is something that even I forgot was part of the process.

When I find a song that I want to print, the first thing I do is highlight the entire song, cut it, and paste it into a blank MS Word document.  This gives me the flexibility to change the font size, make corrections to the chord changes, etc.  However, it ALSO creates those tables that are such a pain in the butt.

Try one now and you'll see what I mean.

So, somewhere in the Chordie formatting must be a table, even though it is invisible when you view a tab within the Chordie website.  My mission, then, is to figure out how to copy the lyrics and the chord changes without copying the whole table.

Is this any clearer?  I KNOW I'm not crazy!!!!!!

155

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Topdown:

I posted a reply earlier, but it somehow didn't make it to the board.  Thank you for the advice.  I fixed it and I'm no longer in Miiiiisery.  I should have been able to find the solution myself, but I guess I'm A Looooooser.

OK, enough of this silly crap now...

156

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

>>>>Are you speaking of the chord charts when you mention "tables"? These can be located to the right or bottom, or turned off. Please provide a link to specific songs you are having an issue with as I don't understand the problem.<<<<

It's EVERY song on Chordie.  When you print any song, it prints as a table, with chords above the lyrics.  By "table," I mean a series of rows and columns that are designed to keep the chords and lyrics properly aligned.  You don't see the table when you open the song and view it on Chordie.  It only comes up when you print.

The problem is, I like to tweak the changes a bit, change the font size, etc before printing.  This means I have to completely de-construct the table and recreate the song on a fresh page.  It's not the end of the world, but it's a bit of a pain.

Hmmm, I'm wondering if I can solve this by going into the mode that lets you "correct" songs.  Perhaps the format is different there.  Let me try that!

157

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

When I used to print songs off Chordie, they would print without "tables."  Often, the chords were not positioned correctly above the lyrics, but that wasn't a big problem.

NOW, every time I print a song, it's in a table format -- and the chords STILL are not positioned properly.  However, because they are printed as tables, fixing them is not as simple as dragging a chord a little bit to match it to the correct lyrics.  Now I have to cut all the text and chords out of the table and paste them into plain paragraph format if I want the chart to look right.

Is there a way to print a song without having it embedded in a table?

158

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Tell me why-y-y-y-y I have to scroll through all those obscure Beatle album groupings just to find a song I want!  It used to be so easy to find a song by going through the alphabetical list.  Now we have to find each song by its album -- and who knows if the albums listed are the BRITISH releases or the AMERICAN releases, which had different tracks on them.  Plus, what the heck are all those bootleg and international-looking releases? 

PLEASE, please me and just bring back the old alphabetical list!!!!

159

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Thanks for responding so fast.  This is a great site.  I hope it does not come under fire from the publishers,,as other tab sites have.

160

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

I think I figured out the problem.  The alternate diagrams I'm seeing are for guitar.  My preferences are set to ukulele.  Perhaps you don't provide alternate fingering for the uke?


I can't remember if the diagrams I used to see were for guitar or ukulele.

161

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Here's an example, but it's ANY page I go to:


<a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/flarere.free.fr/Autres/Beatles/5/ACT_NA~1.txt" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/flare … Autres/Bea tles/5/ACT_NA~1.txt</a>


This is The Beatles' "Act Naturally."  When I click on the fingering diagrams at the right, I get a header that says "A Variations."  Underneath are several boxes with X's in them where there used to be additonal diagrams with alternate "A" fingerings.  Even if I click on the boxes, I do not get the diagrams.  And if I right click and select "Show Picture," nothing happens.


This appears to be the fault of one of my own Internet Explorer settings, although I am not having the problem at any other website.

162

(8 replies, posted in About Chordie)

For me, none of the diagrams on any of the charts are working.  I am clicking on the diagrams to the right of the charts.  I think it may be a setting on my Internet Explorer, although I am set to show all graphics.  Hmm.  I don't know...

How come when I click on a chord diagram to see alternate fingering I am not seeing anything but a place-holder?  Has this feature been disabled?

What does this little diamond mean?  Is it an instruction to mute the string that it's over?