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<center><h1>About VocalEasel</h1></center>
<p>VocalEasel is a program to edit for vocal jazz lead sheets and generate and
<p>VocalEasel is a program to edit vocal jazz lead sheets and generate and
play accompaniments. It is designed to be:</p>
<ul type="circle">
<li>Free to use and redistribute to others.</li>
<li>Easy to use.</li>
<li>Powerful enough to produce adequate results for most common songs.</li>
<li>Powerful enough to produce adequate results for typical lead sheets.</li>
<li>Open, i.e.
<ul type="disc">
<li>You can obtain and change the source code to adapt

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<h1>Entering Music</h1>
<h2>Song Setup</h2>
<h2>Basic Editing</h2>
<h3>Song Setup</h3>
Start by entering some information applying to the entire song:
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<a href="play.html">playing</a> the song.
</ul>
<h2>Entering Chords</h2>
<h3>Entering Chords</h3>
Now you're ready to enter the harmonic structure of the song:
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</li>
</ul>
<h2>Entering the Melody</h2>
<h3>Entering the Melody</h3>
Next, enter the melody:
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the top right to change the number of top or bottom ledger lines.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Entering Lyrics</h2>
<h3>Entering Lyrics</h3>
Finally, you may choose to enter lyrics:
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<li>To place two words on the same note, use an underscore ("and_a").</li>
<li>Use the TAB key to advance to the next note, Shift-TAB to retreat to the preceding note.</li>
<li>By default, you can enter two lines of lyrics. To change that, click the
<i>Display</i> icon at the top right to change the number of lyrics lines.</li>
<i>Display</i> icon at the top right of the window to change the number of lyrics lines.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Editing the Song</h2>
<h2>Advanced Editing</h2>
<h3>Working with Selections</h3>
<ul>
<li>Click on a bar line to select an insertion point.</li>
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items to manipulate the selection.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Repeats / Coda</h2>
<h3>Repeats / Coda</h3>
<ul>
<li>To repeat a section of the song, select it and use the <i>Repeats&rarr;Repeat...</i> menu item to specify the number of repeats.</li>
<li>To repeat a section of the song, select it and use the <i>Repeats&rarr;Repeat...</i> menu item in the <i>Song</i> menu to specify the number of repeats.</li>
<li>To specify alternate endings, select measures at the end of a repeat and
use <i>Repeats&rarr;Endings...</i> to specify when to use the endings.</li>
<li>To specify a coda the last time through a song, select a bar line and use
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Coda</i> to specify where the coda starts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controlling Line / Page Breaks</h3>
By default, Lilypond will choose where to start new lines and new pages. To override these decisions with explicit line and page breaks, click on a bar line and select <i>Line Break</i> or <i>Page Break</i> from the <i>Song</i> menu.
<h3>Working with Multiple Sections</h3>
By default, the <i>key</i>, <i>meter</i>, <i>subdivisions</i>, and <i>groove</i> settings you choose apply to the entire song. If you need to change these in the middle of a song (e.g. to alternate between swing and latin in a song like Green Dolphin Street), click on a bar line and select <i>Section Break</i> from the <i>Song</i> menu. From then on, changes to the above settings only apply to the sections partially or wholly contained in the selection.
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<h2>Playing Accompaniments</h2>
VocalEasel uses the MMA Musical MIDI Accompaniment system to
automatically generate accompaniments for rehearsal.
<blockquote><strong>
While I find automatic accompaniments a very valuable rehearsal tool, make
sure you don't train yourself too much into one particular style of
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how VocalEasel played it!"
</strong></blockquote>
VocalEasel uses the MMA Musical MIDI Accompaniment system to
automatically generate accompaniments for rehearsal.
<ul>
<li>Click the <i>Play</i> icon to start the accompaniment.</li>
<li>Click the <i>Stop</i> icon to stop the accompaniment.</li>
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<i>MIDI</i> from the <i>File Format</i> popup menu.
</ul>
<h2>Selecting Parts to Play</h2>
By default, VocalEasel will play a two bar <i>Count In</i>, followed by the <i>Melody</i> and <i>Accompaniment</i>. To control which of these parts to play or omit, use the corresponding menu items in the <i>Play</i> menu.
<h2>Observing Yourself</h2>
If you would like to observe yourself while singing to control your

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<h1>Printing Music</h1>
While the VocalEasel editing window does not look very nice,
<h2>Generating PDF Output</h2>
While the VocalEasel editing window does not look particularly nice,
VocalEasel uses the LilyPond system to produce beautiful PDF and print output:
<ul>
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All of these tasks need to run LilyPond to create the output format, a process
which can take up to a minute or so.
<h2>Fine Tuning the Output</h2>
To change the absolute size of the music printed or the relative sizes of the chord symbols or lyrics, click the <i>Display</i> icon at the top right of the window:
<ul>
<li><i>Staff Size</i> (default 20) determines the overall size of the music.</li>
<li><i>Chord Size</i> (default 6) determines the font size for chord symbols.</li>
<li><i>Lyrics Size</i> (default 0) determines the font size for the lyrics.</li>
</ul>
All of these sizes can be specified as floating point numbers if desired.
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