Melody guides...what do you think?

First off, I'm not sure if this violates the copyright policy, so I used a public domain Christmas song.

At first I was just gonna add some reminders, but realized for some songs more can be given.

I suspect it'd be against the policy to post these charts if they're copyrighted tunes, right? What about for public domain songs like Christmas tunes, hymns, and other traditional stuff? I'm a bit obsessive and will probably make these for a bunch of them, especially because it's so easy to mix up the melodies with those genres.

So, what do you think about how Im going about this? Any suggestions for a more convenient, efficient, or clear way to do it? It's pretty basic by giving scale degree, direction of approach, and basic rhythm clues.

This app is by far my most used, most useful, and most talked about app and I have been a huge fan for a long time. Once I work out the best method of this, I would like to post a setlist with the public domain tunes I have worked on...if it doesn't go against policy. I just know I'm gonna spend a bunch of time doing it and would like more people than me and the musicians I play with to benefit from it.


Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (w melody) - Wesley-Whitefield-Mendelssohn

One of our members, Norman, works with the Rousseau system:
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...sseau-MusicPad
There is a link to his app in one of the posts there. I think he has prepared some songs in iReal Pro format with melodies similar to what you have done.

Awesome. Thanks. I figured other musicians had probably worked out something but I couldn't find it. Glad I asked before spending a bunch of time trying to create a new system.

http://normanschmidt.net/rousseaumusicpad/
(for anyone else interested)
This system was around in the 1700s!

Here's your version with numbers above the chords.

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing nmn - Wesley-Whitefield-Mendelssohn

This website http://normanschmidt.net/mehegan has many examples.

Very cool...thanks!