The Chord Grid

When you want to place a chord in your song, use the Chord Grid window, which you can open via ChordSong's Chord > Chord Grid menu command.

The Chord Grid window contains a grid of chord buttons. To find a chord, go to the grid column for the chord's root (e.g. Ab, B, or C#) and the grid row for the chord's type (e.g. "[major]", "m", or "+"). When you hover the mouse pointer over a chord button, a "tool tip" will appear showing the chord's name. Note that the columns are grouped in "letter groups", with the Ab, A, and A# columns in one group, the Bb, B, and B# columns in the next group, and so on.

To place a chord in your song, click the chord button. The result depends on the location of the song window's cursor:

• If the cursor is at the end of a line (or on an empty line), ChordSong adds a new measure at the end of the line, with your chord on beat 1.
• If the cursor is in an existing measure, ChordSong places your chord on that beat. If there was already a chord there, the old chord is replaced with your new chord.

To quickly hear a chord, without placing it in your song, right-click the chord button (using the right-hand button on your mouse).

You can show more rows of chords at once by dragging the bottom edge of the Chord Grid window down to make the window taller.

To change a row's chord type, select a different chord type in the dropdown list of chord types at the beginning of that row.