Songhub guide How to write a chord chart from scratch in Songhub

The Songhub song editor, showing chords entered in square brackets above section labels

Songhub supports most of the ChordPro file format, so a chart is built from directives — {title: ...}, {key: ...}, {capo: ...} — plus your chords and lyrics.

Write chords in square brackets inline with the lyrics (for example [C]Write your [Am]chords), or on a line above the lyrics without brackets — both are supported, but not mixed within the same line.

Leave a fully blank line to split a song into sections such as Verse and Chorus. Mark a chorus with {soc}/{eoc} so it gets its own styling, and mark a guitar tab with {sot}/{eot} so it renders as fixed-width and scrolls horizontally instead of wrapping.

Once a song has named sections, the {arrangement: ...} (or {flow: ...}) directive lets you list the running order — like Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, Bridge — instead of retyping each section in full.

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