Open the sheet
The sheet is the second of the two chart panels; it asks for the lyrics the first time, because the page IS the words.
Sheet
A lead sheet is the whole song as a document: a chord row over a lyric row, one line per line of the song, down a page you scroll — or print. It is what you read when you are working the song out rather than playing along with it.
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Read the alignment
A chord is printed over the syllable it lands on, so a change in the middle of a line is where you see it.
Correct a line or a chord
Double-click a line to fix the words, or a chord to change it — the page is the same transcript and the same chords as the track above.
What you get
- Chords over the syllable they are played on
- Instrumental sections on rows of their own
- The whole song as an A4 PDF
Where it stops
This is a chord sheet: the words and the harmony, not staff notation and not the melody. A song with no transcript prints its chords alone, and the lyric engine needs a vocal to read.
Questions
Is this the same as a lead sheet in a fake book?
In shape, yes — chords above lyrics, the whole song in order. What it does not carry is the melody line, which Jambox does not transcribe.
How long can the sheet be?
As long as the song: the page is laid out from the whole transcript, and printing it paginates at A4.
Can I read it while practising?
Yes — the line being sung is banded and followed as the song plays, and a chord turns green once it has been played.
Related
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.
Edit the chords
Recognition gets most of it, and the rest is a tap: change any chord by hand, and the chart, the sheet and the export all follow.