- What is this?
This page is a handy key transposer. You paste a song transcript (chords and lyrics) in the text box above, and this page allows you to change the key to whatever suits your singing range or playing skills. It also lets you simplify chords, do search and replace, and lets you save your edition of the song for future use.
- Can you show me an example?
Click here for a sample song. You can listen to this song here.
- Still a bit confused - how does this work?
This page has an edit mode and a view mode. In edit mode you write the chords and lyrics. When you are done, press the "Process" button to change into view mode, where you can change the key of the song. You can go back to editing the song by pressing the "Edit song" button, or undo any changes performed in view mode with the "Restart song" button, or discard the song altogether using the "New song" button.
- How do I get the chords and words for a given song?
Google for the song title plus "chords". In most "guitar chords" sites you will get songs in a format that will work here; simply copy the text and paste it in the box above. Tablatures ("tabs") are of course a different thing, and will not work here.
- How do I save a song I have edited?
Just bookmark the page. The bookmark will take you back to the exact edition you have made of the song. This is one good thing about "statelessness". Another good thing is that the "back" and "forward" buttons in your browser let you undo and redo your actions (this does not apply within "edit mode", though, but it does apply to any action in "view mode", and any action that takes you from one mode to the other).
- Where is the song stored then?
It's all in the address. :-) Namely, in the bit after the hash sign, which is never sent to the web server and has no length limits. You may have noticed a number between a question mark and the hash sign in the address - this is required to force page reloads when an operation is carried out, but the number itself has no meaning.
- How do I find how to play a chord on a guitar?
Just mouse over the chord in view mode.
- Can words not be mistaken for chords?
They can, but by default each line is assumed to contain only chords, or only words, as in the example above. You can change this by unchecking "Process options" > "Chords and words on different lines" in edit mode, before hitting "Process". You have other interesting options there. If this is still not enough for your needs, you can "activate" and "deactivate" chords in view mode by clicking on them
- How do I do search and replace?
In edit mode, click on "Edit tools" and off you go.
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