Getting Started with ChordPro Songsheets

Have you ever wanted to make your own nicely formatted songsheets for use with your club, your church, or just in your personal songbook?

ChordPro is a free software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will allow you to take song lyrics, add in chord notation and generate great looking PDFs to use while strumming.

This session will cover the basics of how to install, and use ChordPro including how to transpose music for your voice and playing style.

Saturday, 4/22

10:45 am

Location

Allegheny Room

Instructor

Ed Smith

Level

All Levels

Technical

No Uke Required

Skill Levels

Novice: A student who perhaps has never picked up a ukulele before.
Beginner: A student at this level is brand-new to the ukulele. He/she has perhaps learned one to three chords but stops in-between chord changes to move the fingers to the next location.
Advanced/Confident Beginner: A student at this level knows a handful of chords and can move from one chord to another without pausing. Student may have trouble with, say, the B-flat chord shape. Student has learned a strum or two and/or a finger pattern for picking.
Intermediate: A student can hold a steady rhythm and is competent with a variety of basic chords. Understands simple chord progressions, can sing and strum at the same time, and learns chords to simple tunes fairly quickly.
Advanced: A student at this level can hear I, IV, and V chords, has mastered some chord inversions, knows there is life above the fifth fret, and has been there with barre or 4-fingered closed chords. Plays lead and backup easily with others and keeps steady rhythm.

Getting Started with ChordPro Songsheets

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