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Examples:
Syntax cheat sheet
- ## Name
- Start a section
- > MD: text
- Music director note
- 1 | 4 | 5 | 1
- Bars, separated by |
- 1 4 | 6m 5
- Chords share a bar evenly
- 1:3 4:1
- Uneven split, in beats
- 1/3 5sus
- Slash and suspended chords
- <1> =
- Hold a bar; continue it
- '4 ''4 1! 1~
- Push, short push, stab, fermata
- x x:3 %
- No chord; partial rest; repeat the last bar
- [p:2] 5 | 1
- Pickup bar, then full bars
- R[ 1 3 4 5 ]
- Unison riff in single notes
- {mf} {drums in}
- Dynamic or cue
- "short words"
- Lyric landmark
- |: ... :| 3x
- Repeat; [1] and [2] for endings
- {2x drums: in}
- Cue for one pass of a repeat
- {segno} {D.S. al coda}
- Navigation: also {coda}, {to coda}, {fine}, D.C.
- @meter 6/8 [m:2/4]
- Meter change; one bar in another meter
- @tempo 58 q. {rit}
- Tempo change; rit., accel., a tempo
- @use Chorus @use Bridge 2x
- Reuse an earlier section; 2x plays it twice
- > MD drums: text
- MD note for one instrument
- {drums: in}
- Cue for one instrument, on a bar
- @key E
- Key change from here on
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Written in ChartDown, an open notation for band charts · chartdown.github.io/spec