The song editor

Perform

Full-screen scrolling lyrics on a black background, for singing your song rather than writing it.

Perform puts your lyrics on a black screen in large type and gets everything else out of the way. It is for the moment you stop writing and start singing.

Open it from the ⋯ menu in the song editor.

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1. 1Drag for bigger or smaller type
2. 2Close and go back to the editor

What it changes#

• The screen goes black and stays dark whatever your phone is set to, because a bright screen in a dim room is the wrong thing to be looking at.
• Your lyrics are white, your section headers are grey. You can see where the chorus starts without reading the words.
• The edges fade rather than cutting off, so a line that is halfway on screen looks deliberate.
• Nothing is editable. You cannot change a word by accident with a microphone in your hand.

The font size slider#

The slider at the top runs between a small A and a large A. Drag it until the words are readable from wherever your phone is propped.

Your choice sticks per song, so a song you have already set up opens the way you left it.

Greyed out in the menu#

Perform stays dimmed until the song has some lyrics. There is nothing to perform from an empty page, so the app does not offer it.

On a shared song#

A song with co-writers gets a picker at the top for choosing whose words to sing.

When the song has a Master, Perform opens on it by default, because the agreed version is usually the one you want to sing. Your choice is remembered per song.