Quick-Start Guide

Your personal songbook — chords, lyrics, and everything you need to play, built for reading at the music stand.

First thing: put it on your phone

Open your book link in Safari (iPhone/iPad) or Chrome (Android), tap Share → Add to Home Screen. The book becomes an app: full-screen, always a tap away, and your saved notes are protected.

The five buttons at the bottom

🎵

My BookYour songs, as cards. Tap the ☆ on any song to make it a favorite; the ★ Favorites chip filters down to the ones you love.

🔍

LibraryEvery song anyone's book holds. Search by title, artist, album, genre, or key. See one you want? Tap ＋ and it gets requested for your book.

⏺

Record (center button)Log a practice session — run the timer or just enter minutes, add a note about what clicked.

📋

Set ListsMake named lists — “Friday — brewery”, “Sunday morning” — and order the songs. ▶ Gig Mode turns one into a big, dark, on-stage stepper.

🕐

PracticeYour practice history — sessions this week, minutes, and every note you logged.

Inside a song sheet

Chords + Lyrics — chord names sit right above the words, half-bar changes marked (½). Toggle to Lyrics (edit) to fix or personalize the words; your edits save automatically in your browser.

▶ Auto-scroll rolls the lyrics at the song's tempo while you play — the slider adjusts speed.

Chord Shapes — the guitar box on top, the keyboard chord below it (dots mark the chord tones), and a Warm-Up card with the chord tones as notation for violin or any melody instrument.

♫ Open in Music plays the exact recording in the Apple Music app (Mac, iPhone, iPad — and Android if you have the app); Web Player works everywhere else.

Story, performance notes, and looping ideas round out every sheet — and every notes box saves as you type.

Adding a song to your book

Tap the ⚙ gear → Add a song. Title and artist is enough for a quick request — but the full form (linked right there) lets you paste the lyrics too, which gets your song built fastest.

You'll be asked for your PIN the first time on each device, then it's remembered. Your request goes into the shared queue with your name on it; the sheet is then researched properly — real tuning, verified key, never a capo shortcut — and appears in your book with the next update.

💡 Best request = title + artist + the album version you play + pasted lyrics.

Your data is yours (back it up!)

Favorites, set lists, lyric edits, notes, and your practice log live in your browser on your device — nobody else sees them. That also means: back them up. ⚙ gear → Export saves everything to a file; Import restores it on a new device.

Practice & Performance Book · Michael Carlucci · v4.6