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diff --git a/posts/tabs.md b/posts/tabs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee50f38 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/tabs.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +title: Chords Songbooks - A Zach DeCook project +date: 2017-08-28 +modified: 2017-09-02 +author: Zach DeCook +--- + +Started in early 2017, the tabs website (or Songbooks) was one that was a long time coming. + +[Check it out here!](https://songs.zachdecook.com){.h3 .featured} + +[{.w3-card-4}](https://songs.zachdecook.com){.featured} + +### Features + +* Transposition +* Guitar chord lookup +* Next song choices with auto transpose +* Monospaced font + +The songs are parsed from a plain text file. + +### History + +<!--  --> + +What does a good singalong need? Music. And enough for everybody. +My dad's classic brief-case-full-a-tunes was always providing +for a great time around a campfire. Over the years, though, something +kept happening. Some minor tweak in the system font would result in +hours of headache for somebody. + +The project evolved into the digital age thanks to the likes of one +GetDropbox Dot Com. Whenever a jam session was going to go down, +one would just need an iPad and a copy of the latest PDF. + +PDFs are kind of cumbersome, and when they get long enough, even modern +devices start to hang. They are also static content. In the days of paper, +my progenitor would differentiate keys with different colors. + +In 2016, I asked for an e-reader for my birthday. I wanted it mostly for +reading music. My phone was in the habit of running out of power on me, and +having multiple devices seemed like a good idea at the time. +Super-fancy it was, +and very well featured as well, but the gray tones of the screen made it hard +to determine what key I was in. + +<!-- ![]() --> + +Thusly, this project was born. The biggest task being the data +manipulation... Somebody has to fix the spacing on all those +songs again. |