Paste a chart as ChordPro

Charts are stored as ChordPro, the plain-text format most chord sites and apps can export. If you already have a chart as text, pasting it is faster than rebuilding it in the block editor.

Open the source view

1. Open the song's Chords tab and click the pencil to edit.
2. Click Show source in the editor's footer.
3. Paste your text. It turns into blocks as you type, and you can keep editing either way.
4. Click Save.

The format

Chords go in square brackets inside the lyric, right before the syllable they land on. A section header is a comment directive:

{comment: Chorus}

[G]Amazing [G7]grace, how [C]sweet the [G]sound

• Instrumental lines: chords separated by spaces, with | for bar lines.
• Optional chords: keep the brackets outside the parentheses, like [(Am)].
• Metadata: {title:}, {artist:}, {key:} and {capo:} are understood. A capo line shows as a badge in the chart header.

Pitfalls

• Tabs: paste plain text only. Tab characters throw the chord positions off.
• Chords too close together: leave at least one character between two chords. Two chords placed right on top of each other are read as one.
• Other directives: start_of_chorus and similar directives are kept but not shown as sections. Use a comment line for the header instead.