Sometimes the bass guitar plays a different note to the chord, making it more ‘colourful’ – write these bass notes under the chord like a fraction, e.g. where there is more than one chord in a bar Use ‘bar lines’ between the chords to help the band with timing, sometimes there may be 2 or more chords to a bar, and sometimes the same chord is also in the next bar (indicated with a %)įinish a verse or chorus with a ‘double-barline’Īdd some timing marks (small slashes) as necessary within a bar, e.g. Most important – add all the chords for the intro, outro, and instrumental breaks Make sure not to write too close to the edge of the page, otherwise it might get missed when photocopied Use the computer to add chords, although will stand out better if handwritten with a felt pen onto the printed lyric sheet (use an Artline® 2.0 calligraphic pen, water based) Most songs will usually be written allowing for 4 chords per line, so set out the lyrics so that the chord positions will be evenly spaced across the line Sing the song, at the same time adding spaces between groups of lyrics for chord timing, this is probably the hardest part as the chords are not yet there (you do this later!) with indented and bold choruses, extra spaces between verses and chorusesģ. Make full use of the space available over two pages, or one page if possible, don’t break up verses or choruses between pages Group the lyrics into verses, choruses, bridges, instrumental breaks and label them Leave a big enough space before the first lyric line for the intro chords Write your name on the next line, in a smaller font, at the right-hand side Write the song title at top in a large font, bold and underline Set the line spacing to ‘Double Line Space’ (under format, paragraph) Set the font to ‘Times New Roman’ size 14 Or look on the internet and copy and paste lyrics into a word document, most song lyrics come with chords above them, which aren’t necessarily correct, remove them all Hand write or use a typewriter, but the best way is to use a computer to type the lyricsĭon’t type in all uppercase (capital letters)
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