Overview

This is a personal project, the target is to help me generate and maintain synthetic songbooks, that I can use when playing with my amateur pop band.

Standard music notation looks something like this :

In pop music, this can be quite hard to follow, you may have 96 times the same chord, which ends up in a music sheet of 5 pages with the same thing. When you play, you cannot turn the page, so you want a synthetic view, with easy to visualize patterns ( ie verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, ...), with bar number, and annotations.

The goal is also for the band, not just for the guitar player, to have a short way to communicate about the song articulations, the breaks, and so on. Of course this does not replace the need to learn the song by other means ( real score, learn by ear, or any other way), and it does not replace having to practice your instrument with a full score support, or by ear.

The targeted goal is to have pdf files that you can either print or see on a tablet, such as :

one A4 page

easy to follow grid notation, one cell per bar

a music sheet snippet, for the bridge

lyrics are in sync with the score

This document has the following sections, that hopefully help to understand the :

• what do we want ( the specifications )
• the detailed design ( how is that written, how to maintain it )
• the user manual ( how to use it )
• the installation manual ( how to install it )