Open the grid
The grid is one of the two chart panels, beside the lead sheet; whichever is open is the one the song is read in.
Grid
The grid is a song counted out: two bars to a row, one box per beat, and every chord printed in the beat it lands on. It is the reading that shows you WHERE in the bar a change happens, which a chord strip cannot.
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Read the boxes
Each beat is a box, the bar line is heavier, and the chord name is printed where it arrives rather than repeated.
Follow the playhead
The box the song has reached is lit and the boxes behind it turn green, so the row shows both where you are and what is coming.
What you get
- Two bars a row, one box per beat
- Chords printed on the beat they land on
- The lyrics under the bars, if the song has them
Where it stops
The grid rounds a chord to the beat it starts in — a change that arrives halfway through a beat is shown on that beat, not between two. It is a chart for reading a bar quickly, not a transcription of every strum.
Questions
How is the grid different from the sheet?
The grid counts beats; the sheet writes the same chords over the words. They are two readings of one song, and both are one click apart.
Can I print the grid?
Yes — the same export door writes it to an A4 PDF, and the lyric row is included when the song has words.
Does it count in four?
The grid follows the beats the analysis found, so a waltz is drawn in three and a shuffle in its own grid rather than being forced into four.
Related
Sheet
The same chords written over the syllable they are played on, and the line being sung banded: what has been played turns green, and the words already sung stay white.
Audio or video to sheet
Drop in a song file or a video and get the chords written over the words, with the key and the tempo, as a PDF you can print.
Live concert to sheet
Drop in a phone video of a live show and get the chords, the words and the key laid over the bars — applause, the step up in the last chorus and all.