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Song sheets: chord names in-line or above the line?

Some “off the top of my head” thoughts on this, prompted by discussions with Jim Carey, of “Jim’s Songbooks” at ozbcoz.com, and Songsheet Generator developer Christian. I am extrapolating from reflections on my personal experience here and yours might be

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MUMF Easy Chord Changes Tips and Tricks Workshop

Please check out these bookmarked links for more tips: https://pinboard.in/u:lizpanton/t:MUMF-tips/ Apologies to those who attended for the lack of other info here.  I was not expecting to do the workshop until MUMF 2019 . I will add content and upload

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Venezuelan Cuatro Rebuild by Kevin Parsons – Part 4

Kevin has finished the new bracing on “Benny”, the Venezuelan Cuatro that he bought from César Salazar Tovar (“imcesar”on eBay). Plans for the new fingerboard, nut, frets, tap plate and bridge plus some comments about Cedrela.

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Venezuelan Cuatro Rebuild by Kevin Parsons – Part 3

Tips about glue and parting knives. Progress with new kerfing and bracing.

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Jim Carey’s Songbooks and Song Sheets @cong_boy

If you see this man – buy him a pint! Or donate on his songbook site – he deserves it! Jim Carey now has over 2,000 songs available for download from http://ozbcoz.com as: single sheets complete songbooks for Ukulele GCEA,

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Free and easy online tools to make song sheets with automatic chord grids | Jim Carey website | @ukegeeks | ukulizer |

Originally posted on Ukes4Fun:
All the Ukes4Fun Songbooks are in “Landscape” format.  If you prefer “Portrait” format, here are a couple of free, easy online tools to make song sheets for printing in portrait format: both tools produce chord…

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Songsheet Generator chord grids for different tunings

Songsheet Generator and ChordPro I use Songsheet Generator to make my song sheets: “Songsheet Generator is an application which prints songsheets and songbooks for home, small group, or large group overhead use. The program runs on Microsoft® Windows™ (native .exe), Mac

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Chordie web site tips

“About Chordie: Guitar chords and guitar tablature made easy. Chordie is a search engine for finding guitar chords and guitar tabs.” And, of course, ukulele chords and tabs.  If you have not come across Chordie before, read the Chordie FAQ

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Some Songbook and Chordpro Tips

In case it helps anyone else, some extracts from recent email correspondence about Songbook from Linkesoft and Chordpro aka Chordii formatting. Where there are references to a “PC” this applies equally to a Mac or any other operating system. Similarly,

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