Type a title, hum a vibe, paste a YouTube link. Shadow Band sets a real lead sheet — chord, melody, structure — with guitar voicings underneath. No theory required, no sign-up to start.
Try: "autumn leaves" · "a blue waltz, 6/8, in D minor" · "giant steps"
Type any song title, paste a vibe, or sketch a description in plain English. We return a real lead sheet — clef, key, time, chord symbols, melody, section markers — set on cream paper and ready to print. The library is checked first; common requests are instant.
Real notation, not a chord chart. Key signature, time signature, accurate melody, section markers, repeat brackets, voltas — the things you'd expect to see in a fake book pulled off a piano bench. Print it on Letter or A4, save as PDF, or read it on your phone in the green room.
Every chord on the chart gets a fretboard underneath. Finger positions, interval labels, open strings and mutes — the way Mel Bay drew them, only you can flip through voicings. Standard tuning, Drop D, Open G, DADGAD, and a few oddballs.
The chord card shows what your hand actually does — black dots for fingers, ring for an open string, × for muted. The cardinal dot marks the colour tone (the 3rd or b7 you want to hear), so you know which note to lean on.
Pick a root, a mode, and a genre. The engine writes a progression with the harmonic moves a working composer would actually use — borrowed chords, tritone subs, the occasional secondary dominant. The variation slider decides how far it strays.
Each chord shows its name, Roman numeral, interval notes, and an expandable voicing. Hit a cell with a tritone sub and the engine flags it; play it and you'll hear why it works.
Pick a root and a mode. The fretboard answers — every scale tone laid out across the wood, with the pentatonic skeleton glowing inside it. The page where modes finally make sense under your fingers.
Strings run high E to low E. Each dot wears its scale degree — root flagged in cardinal, pentatonic in saffron, the rest in ink. Toggle the arpeggio overlay to see only the chord tones; switch to a position box and the dots collapse into a four-fret window your hand can actually cover.
Every chart you bind, every progression you keep — gathered into named volumes you can flip through, reprint, and pull onto a stand. A bossa book for Sunday brunch. A standards book for sit-ins. An open-tunings book for the road.
The payoff for using Shadow Band over time isn't a feed — it's a shelf.
Free to start. No card. No instrument required — though one helps. Strike a chart, flip through voicings, and see where the night takes you.