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⭐ Chord name for Piano

▫ Option to switch between the piano and a stringed instrument

▫ Get the name for every possible chord

▫ Shows the notes, missing optional notes, and the intervals for a selected chord

▫ Piano uses the color scheme binding for a selected chord

▫ Open ‘Chord detail’ for the selected chord

▫ Open ‘Arpeggio’ for the selected chord

▫ Add a chord type to the favorites

▫ Add a chord to the chord progression

▫ Add a chord to the playground

▫ Create a custom chord if you prefer a different name

▫ Handle to resize the piano

▫ Option to activate the sound of the piano

📖 Documentation

✔ Songbook with extended Song Structure support:

▫ Each section starts with a heading and ends with a blank line or another section

▫ Blank lines between the heading and the first lyrics or chords line are part of the section

📖 Documentation

✔ Pattern:

◾ Change the instrument, tuning or capo

◾ Support for tunings with capo

✔ Songbook song search: song detection for Chordie improved

✔ Synchronize: Better overview through the ability to expand and collapse the categories of items to be synchronized

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Alwin Brauns, Darryl Brooks, Eric Damien, Michael Gleß and Tobias Flint-Bozeman for their contribution to this version

⭐ Songbook

◾ Song Structure support:
▫ Define the sections of your song with simple headings
▫ Allows notation with square brackets: [Verse] [Chorus] …
▫ Allows notation with colon behind the heading: Verse: Chorus: …
▫ Each section starts with a heading and ends with a blank line or another section
▫ Section headings are shown in bold
▫ A section is colored as a block according to your Songbook color scheme
▫ Option to map song section header names to the songbook color scheme
📖 Documentation

◾ Emphasize individual words:
▫ Bold: surround it with double asterisks (*). ▫ Italics: surround it with a tilde and an asterisk (~).
▫ Underline: surround it with an underline and an asterisk (_*).
▫ You can also combine Italics and Underline with Bold
📖 Documentation

◾ New directive {new_page}
▫ It forces a new page to be generated when a song is printed
▫ Songbook editor menu supports this directive
▫ Reference: https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/directives-new_page/
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◾ Songbook editor:
▫ The ChordPro-Multiline-transformation also transforms sections: e.g. {start_of_verse:Verse 1} <-> Verse 1:
▫ Toolbar for quick insertion of the chords and sections of the song and frequently used characters like bracket pairs [] and {}
▫ Toolbar can be disabled in the settings
📖 Documentation

◾ Option in ‘Lyrics’ mode that activates a proportional font to improve readability and enhance aesthetics
📖 Documentation

✔ Metronome: Buttons to increase and decrease the tempo in steps of 5 and 10 BPM

✔ Other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Darryl Brooks, Gian Müller, Ken Cowie, Michael Fischer, Michele De Pascalis, Mike Ellis, Milan Kofron and Paul Aussem for their contribution to this version