I'm looking for some software to do up some chord charts. I'm not doing full musical scores or even lead sheets. I don't need to transcribe a single musical note. Just the chord symbols (A7, Bm, etc.). But I need bars and staves and repeat markers, etc. to show how many bars to play the chords and what not. Something like Sibelius or Finale would be major overkill for what I'm doing. Right now I'm using tables in Microsoft Word. Like this:

|Am / / / | C / / / | E7 / / / | / / / / |

The reults are close to what I'm looking for, but it's a bit time consuming doing it that way and doesn't really look all that great. Anybody know a better solution (hopefully free or cheap)?

Nikko:

I think Masterwriter may do what you're looking for. They used to have a demo version that you might want to check out.

Pretty pricey software, but cool..

http://www.masterwriter.com/

Finale 2003 or 2004 or 2005 does what you need. You don't have to use the musical notes at all. You can just use it for putting in chords.

That's just what he said - major overkill. Why would someone want to buy Finale for that?I think they make a guitar version called Guitar Tracks or something. Look at the Coda website.

Sibelius has guitar software specifically for that somewhere in the $100 range. It does tab as well.

Some of the bottom of the line Coda stuff might do very well too.

Professional notation software is a bit overkill for writing chord charts, I agree.

You might even look around Hitsquad.com and see if there is any free or low cost share ware that might cover your needs.

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Originally posted by Bruce:
Sibelius has guitar software specifically for that somewhere in the $100 range. It does tab as well.

Some of the bottom of the line Coda stuff might do very well too.

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It seems that Finale has a free version that might do what I need. I hadn't realized that. I'll download it and give it a try. Thanks for the suggestions.