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Developers & Technology => Musical MIDI Accompaniment (MMA) => Topic started by: sciurius on January 03, 2023, 10:18:17 AM


Title: ChordPro 6 released
Post by: sciurius on January 03, 2023, 10:18:17 AM
ChordPro version 6 is released.

ChordPro is a tool that produces nicely formatted lead sheets (lyrics and chords) from text files that contain the lyrics and chords and some additional instructions. It is a bit similar to MMA, producing something nice and useful from simple text input. And, also like MMA, it is free software.

(https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/images/love-me-tender-small.png)

Version 6 is the result of a long period of development and testing and contains a plethora of new features. Read all about it in the release notes (https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/chordpro6-relnotes/).

What has this to do with MMA, you may ask. Well, ChordPro can also generate simple MMA skeletons from ChordPro 'grid' sections. For example, the following grid section

Code:
{start_of_grid}
|| Am . . . | C . . . | D  . . . | F  . . . |
|  Am . . . | C . . . | E  . . . | E  . . . |
|  Am . . . | C . . . | D  . . . | F  . . . |
|  Am . . . | E . . . | Am . . . | Am . . . ||
{end_of_grid}

may look like this in ChordPro,

(https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/images/ex_grid1.png)

and generate the following MMA:

Code:
// title: Grid Example

Time   4/4
Groove Neutral44
Tempo  60

/**** End of Preamble ****/

//   5 Start of grid
//   6 || Am . . . | C . . . | D . . . | F . . . |
  1  Am
  2  C
  3  D
  4  F
//   7 | Am . . . | C . . . | E . . . | E . . . |
  5  Am
  6  C
  7  E * 2
//   8 | Am . . . | C . . . | D . . . | F . . . |
  9  Am
 10  C
 11  D
 12  F
//   9 | Am . . . | E . . . | Am . . . | Am . . . ||
 13  Am
 14  E
 15  Am * 2
//  End of grid

You can get ChordPro from Github (https://github.com/ChordPro/chordpro/releases).

Title: Re: ChordPro 6 released
Post by: bvdp on January 03, 2023, 04:46:26 PM
This will be a really tool for singer/songwriters and folk into folk-style music. Thanks for sharing the update! And for incorporating MMA into the program.

One question for my little brain: What are "grids"? Same as what I refer to as "progressions"?

Best,

Title: Re: ChordPro 6 released
Post by: sciurius on January 03, 2023, 06:11:34 PM
The 'grids' are patterened after the Jazz Grilles (https://guitarejazzmanouche.com/grilles/4/All%20of%20me). With one box per bar (or beat) it gives a quick view of the song structure.

Title: Re: ChordPro 6 released
Post by: bvdp on January 03, 2023, 06:39:18 PM
Ahhhahh. Got it. Funny I didn't see that since I try to do my lead sheets 4 measures per line where practical (depending on the song structure of course). Looks good.


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