poor man's gig book

periclimenes

Here is a photo of my budget gig book.

The nice thing is that I can add or remove songs, as necessary (and still keep everything nice and tidy in alphabetical order). The current iteration has 65 tunes in it. The funny part is that I have been coveting my friend's Robin Nolan gig book, but I've never purchased one because the price is a little steep for me. Now my buddy with the Nolan book wants me to make one for him. Go figure...

Jack

I like it! You should laminate all the pages and start selling them at festivals.

HCQ

Jack wrote:

I like it! You should laminate all the pages and start selling them at festivals.

Or with a partnership with Michael! I'd buy it if it had the many conceiveable tunes that inevitably turn up at jams.

Could be a godsend.

thickpick

Periclimenes, if you're not looking to get into the "poor man's gig book" publishing biz, would you be willing to post the template you used to create those grilles? They look really slick.

BluesBop Harry

Looks nice!

As a sidenote "After you've gone" is not in the key of C major.... as it appears in your chart it's in G, it starts on the IV chord

periclimenes

Harry,

Thanks for catching that. Instead of having the forethought to make templates for song types (AABA, ABAC, through composed, etc.) I had been cutting and pasting songs and changing the title, key signature, and chords. I forgot to change the key signature when I pasted that one from elsewhere.

periclimenes

thickpick wrote:

Periclimenes, if you're not looking to get into the "poor man's gig book" publishing biz, would you be willing to post the template you used to create those grilles? They look really slick.

I'm away from the computer that has the giant word file on it, but when I get back to it next week, I can put something up. Here's the gist of what I did, though:

1. Create a new document in word, using the 3"x5" index card template that comes with the program(it makes three to a page)
2. Create a table with the appropriate number of cells
3. Put in the chords
4. Print, Cut, Paste...

thickpick

Thanks for the directions, Periclimenes. Question: I see in the Daphne card in the background that you're able to get a split cell with a diagonal line. Any idea how you did that? I can only figure out how to get a vertical dividing line, which I find harder to read.

periclimenes

Hey thickpick,

If you click the dropdown menu next to the table border, there is a diagonal line one. Then you have to left-justify the first chord (top left) and right justify the second one (bottom right). Let me know if you have more questions.

thickpick

Hey, cool trick! I didn't know Word could do that. Thanks for the help.