🔥 Campfire Songbook

← Create and edit a song

The advanced editor and its icons

The editor opens in “Visual” mode. The “Advanced” button, top right of the editor, shows the raw ChordPro source and a row of icons instead: useful if you know the format, to convert a whole song with chords above the lyrics in one go, or to touch up a line the visual editor keeps locked (🔒). Your choice is remembered on this device; “Visual” brings the grid back. Hover an icon to see what it does; here is the full list. Most of them act either at the cursor position or on the text you have selected.

The advanced editor: the switch on “Advanced”, the toolbar and its Structure, Chords, Rhythm, Tools and History groups, then the chord palette.
In “Advanced” mode, tools are arranged in groups; hover an icon to see its name and what it does.

Song structure

  • VerseWrap the selected passage as a verse, to give the song a clear structure.
  • ChorusWrap the selected passage as a chorus: it stands out on screen and can be recalled later.
  • Repeat the chorusInsert a "Chorus" marker at the cursor to repeat the chorus without rewriting it.
  • CommentAdd a note (e.g. "softly", "x2", "intro") shown set apart, and not sung.
  • ColorPuts the selection in an emphasis tint (1, 2 or 3): to tell her part from his, spoken text… Whole lines become a tinted block, framed like a chorus; a few words get a tint within the line. Chords keep their color.
  • TabWrap the selected passage as a tab, shown in a fixed-width font (intro, riff...). Only the first line may contain ChordPro chords such as [G]. These chords stay in the original key when the song is transposed.

Chords

  • Add a chordPlace the cursor in the lyrics then click: a small dialog lets you type the chord (e.g. Am, G7), inserted right above the syllable.
  • Chords in this songOpens the list of every chord played in the song, with its fingering. Fix a fingering on the fretboard: that is what people will see when they tap the chord.
  • Text to chordSelect text you already typed and turn it into a chord, without retyping it.
  • Nudge leftMove the selected chord one character to the left to line it up exactly on the right syllable.
  • Nudge rightMove the selected chord one character to the right.

Rhythm

  • StrummingOpen the strumming pattern builder (down, up, muted, rest, accent) and insert the pattern at the cursor.
  • Scroll speedAdds {x_scroll_speed: 80} at the start of the line: from here on, auto-scroll runs at 80% of the chosen speed (10 to 300%). Invisible when reading, it shows in the preview.

Tools

  • Convert the whole textPasted a song with the chords written above the lyrics? Convert the whole body at once to the editor format, with chords attached to the right syllables.
  • Convert the selectionSame conversion, but only on the passage you selected — handy to redo just one verse.
  • Copy the chord gridCopy the chord sequence of a line to reuse it elsewhere.
  • Paste the chord gridPaste the copied chord grid onto the selected line(s) — perfect when the same progression comes back.

History

  • UndoStep back one action if you made a mistake.