I know we like to make and play sheet music but sometimes we might wanna write the chords to a certain song and chord websites suck crap. I've posted on them twice and mine never are accepted for no reason that I know of. It would also give newer transcribers and edge to chord ideas as well as new ideas to pros. Although that's why I've been putting chord symbols on all me sheets. :D

The standard for using chord symbols is to write them in the sheet music itself, above notes where a chord change occurs.
Alot of sheet music has that (like your sheets), so a pure chord symbols sheet without any notes isn't that useful.

On the other hand, either the transcribers here don't care about writing chord symbols or some of them may not have the knowledge to do so, in the end most people who come to Ichigo's for sheet music are only looking for the notes.

in the end most people who come to Ichigo's for sheet music are only looking for the notes.
This.



There's nothing wrong with lead sheets; lelangir does them all the time. But transcribing only chords is kinda limited in usefulness... =/

Sure it's great if you're playing rhythm guitar, or just want to hammer out chords on a piano (and without rhythm information, that will be some fairly random hammering...)


In a way, people who transcribe chords have to be even more accurate than regular transcribers, because if they're not attentive, they can miss many notes, and a lot of people around here (from what I've seen) only worry about triads and sevenths. You almost never see people trying to transcribe extended chords, since it takes more work to listen for those extra notes and get them all in the sheet.

For example, how do you decide between calling something a G6 or an Em7/G; or what if someone hears a B9, but there's no 'A' note, so it's actually a Badd9 because of the missing 7th; or what if someone writes down Csus4, but misses the D which would make it C9sus4? For that matter, how do you decide when one chord ends and another begins? If you focus on chord changes over half, quarter, etc intervals, you could get slightly different results for each analysis. When the bass moves a lot, you can get plenty of inversions. With all the effort that would go into that, you might as well just make a lead sheet, or even a full transcription. At least with a lead sheet, you'd also get rhythm information and the melody line.