> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.slipity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Songs

> Words, groups, labels, arrangements and chords — and the Flow editor that makes them quick.

## The Flow editor

The fastest way to make or change a song is the **Flow** panel: the presentation's words as plain text. Type, and the slides follow.

* An **empty line** ends a slide.
* A line like `Chorus` or `Verse 2:` starts a **group**.
* **Chords** in brackets — `[G]Amazing [C]grace` — sit over the letter after them.
* Paste a chord sheet from a website, **ChordPro**, **OnSong** or a page of HTML, and it's tidied into that shape as it lands.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: The Flow panel beside the slides, a chorus being typed and the slides following.

Settings for songs as they arrive — **Lines per Slide**, and **Add Blank Slides at the Beginning and End** — are in **Settings › Themes**.

## Groups

A **group** is a run of slides with a name and a colour: Verse 1, Chorus, Bridge.

* In Flow, a heading line starts one.
* On the slides, right-click and choose **Group**. One slide starts a group that carries on to the next. Several picked slides are each put in the group, and the slides around them keep theirs.
* **New Group…** names one and picks its colour; **None** takes the group off.

Set up the groups offered on every slide, and their colours, in **Settings › Groups & Labels**. Names match loosely, so "Pre-Chorus", "prechorus" and "PreChorus" share a colour.

## Labels

A **label** names one slide — "repeat", "instrumental", a note for whoever is at the desk. Right-click and choose **Label**. Labels have colours too, set in **Settings › Groups & Labels**.

## Arrangements

An **arrangement** is the order a song is sung in: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, Chorus. Keep several for different services, and choose which one a service uses. A chorus sung three times is one set of slides played three times — fix it once.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: Amazing Grace with its arrangement above the slides, groups colour-coded.

## Chords and keys

* Show chords **over the words** on a stage screen for the band, or on any text layer. Choose whether they're drawn and how they look in the inspector's **Chords** section, or Flow's **Chords** popover for a whole song.
* **Transpose** a song into another key, and the chords move with it — with a **capo** where one helps.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: A stage screen showing lyrics with chords, transposed up a step.

## Copyright

Each song has a **copyright** box in its presentation inspector, and a **Copyright** switch. See [Copyright and CCLI](https://docs.slipity.com/going-further/copyright-and-ccli.md).

## Song topics

Each song can have **topics** — grace, communion, Easter — that the [Set Builder](https://docs.slipity.com/building/set-builder.md) finds songs by. They're read from the words for you, and can be changed in the song's inspector.


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