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Creating and Editing Songs

Create a New Song​

From the Songs tab, open the top-right menu and select 'Create'.

Edit an Existing Song​

Navigate to a song, open its top-right menu, and select 'Edit'.

Pro Tip

For heavy editing, use a desktop computer. Tap 'Continue on Desktop' to generate a link that opens the editor in the web version of the Bandfix app.

Song Attributes​

In the editor, you can specify various information about the song like Name, Description, Artist, Key, Tempo, Time Signature, Duration, and more.

Tags​

Tags help you organize and find songs easily. You assign multiple tags to a song. When navigating your library, you can filter songs by these tags.

Sections​

You can create any number of sections in your songs. Each section can contain different types of content like lyrics, chords, PDFs, audio files, and more.

Lyrics & Chords section​

This section uses Bandfix's rich text editor, so you can build clean lyric sheets and chord charts visually instead of relying only on plain text markers.

Format lyrics​

Type lyrics normally, then use the editor tools to:

  • Undo or redo recent edits from the toolbar.
  • Make text bold, italic, or underlined.
  • Change text color.
  • Add highlight color.

This is useful for vocal cues, harmony parts, spoken lines, repeats, and other on-stage reminders.

Work with chords​

Use the Chord button to insert a chord above the current position. If you select a chord first, the same button lets you replace it, and you can remove the selected chord as well. When a chord is selected, the toolbar also shows Copy and Paste so you can reuse the same chord styling in this editor or another song editor.

You still have a fast text shortcut:

  • Type or paste chords in square brackets, like [D], [G/B], or [F#m7].
  • When the cursor leaves the brackets, Bandfix turns them into real chord tokens automatically.

You can drag a chord left or right to line it up with the correct lyric syllable.

If you are using a hardware keyboard and a chord is selected, start typing and Bandfix will open the chord picker with your typed text already filled in.

Quick Tip

If you prefer a fixed toolbar instead of floating tools near the cursor, use the toolbar switch button. Bandfix remembers your choice.

If you're editing with a hardware keyboard, the usual shortcuts work too: Cmd/Ctrl+Z for undo, and Shift+Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Y for redo.

When you import ChordPro​

If you import a ChordPro file into a Lyrics & Chords section, Bandfix keeps the formatting this editor can already show:

  • ChordPro inline chords are moved into Bandfix chord lines above the lyrics.
  • Bold, italic, underline.
  • Text color and highlight color.
  • Chord styling for bold, italic, underline, chord color, and chord highlight.
  • Comments, highlighted comments, and italic comments.
  • Structured parts such as Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Tab, and Grid, including repeated chorus flow.

Bandfix does not yet show every ChordPro feature inside the editor. Unsupported formatting such as font changes, strikeout, subscript, superscript, links, and images is simplified or skipped so the section stays editable.

Organize song structure​

When you create a Lyrics & Chords section, you can choose one of two formats:

  • Plain Text for quick pasting or typing.
  • Flow Parts for structured charts with Verse, Chorus, Bridge, and reusable flow order.

With Flow Parts, you can:

  • Specify color-coded abbreviations for each part (e.g., V1, C, B).
  • Define the song flow by arranging parts in order and repeating them as needed (e.g., V1, C, V2, C, B, C).
  • Rearrange parts.
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A special toggle 'Follow flow' will display the parts in the order you defined (including repeats), mirroring the actual song arrangement without the need to copy-paste the same part again. This is especially useful in Live mode when navigating with autoscroll, Bluetooth pedal, or MIDI. If you want to save screen space, you can also show each unique part only once instead.

Specialized tools​

Each part has a Tools button that lets you quickly transpose, change key, convert to Nashville Number System, and more.

You can switch between Plain Text and Flow Parts later using the section tools.

Sheet Music section​

Displays scores in MusicXML format. Tap 'Upload MusicXML' to import a file and Preview to see it.

Audio Tracks section​

Upload audio files and preview audio tracks. When playing an Audio track you can tap the cog button to change the key and playback speed which is useful for practice, backing tracks playing or learning song parts.

tip

Use smaller file sizes for better performance.

PDF Documents section​

You can upload and annotate any PDF file. When editing a PDF document, you can highlight parts of it, add notes, and manage existing annotations.

Pointers to external resources (e.g., Spotify, YouTube). Tapping a link opens it in a web browser. You can also upload Album Art or other files here.

Member Details​

It's possible to add member-specific details to a song (e.g. different keys for different vocalists). To do that, tap Add Member Details, select member and specify the details.