Reason #1 - Lyricist supports guitar and piano/keyboard chord style charting:
Lyricist lets you enter guitar chord symbols and or standard chord symbols for guitar and piano/keyboard or other instruments along with your lyrics.

Key Benefits: Helps prepare your songs in today's standard chord based lead sheets and allows you the flexibility to prepare a guitar, piano/keyboard or other instrument based lead sheet.

Chord based lead sheets are typical musical shorthand song representations that today's songwriters use. This approach is based on chord guitar and chord piano or chord style methods. It's shorthand because it saves you the time you'd otherwise spend writing out your musical arrangement in standard musical notation format.

Chord style lead sheets are akin to the format you'll find in music fake books. With chord style lead sheets you often can get your entire song on one page of paper. Obviously this is much less cumbersome than multiple pages of sheet music.

Also with chord style arrangements you can switch into the Nashville Number System when needed at the click of a mouse and back (more on this below under Readily prepare your songs' chord progressions with the Nashville Number System). And create a chord only page with the new Arrange feature (more on that below under Four different Song Views)

Reason #2 - Four different Song Views:
Lyricist features four different ways to view your work. Lyrics View is the basic editing window.  Chord View lets you add guitar chord symbols and or standard chord symbols for piano or other instruments to your lyrics.  Also switch into the Nashville Number System when needed. And Arrange View lets you view your chord progressions without the lyrics.

Key Benefits: Helps you readily organize the typical items you'll need to prepare your song for a demo session or playing your song live. Or simply for your own reference particularly to practice or record your song.

Easily switch the orientation of your song from piano to guitar to the Nashville Number System and back and forth as often as you need to.

Reason #3 - Readily prepare your songs' chord progressions with the Nashville Number System:
Lyricist's Nashville Number System support enables you to quickly convert your chord charts and arrangements from any standard key into the Nashville Number format making it easy for players to transcribe the song into any key - on the fly!

Key Benefits: The Nashville Number System is handy for mainly producing country song demos particularly in Nashville. It allows musicians to easily play in one key or another usually depending on the best key for the singer without having to rewrite your chord charts.

Easily switch the orientation of your song to the Nashville Number System when you're sending your song off to a Nashville demo studio or going there yourself to produce it.

Reason #4 - Easily transpose the chords of your songs to any other key:
The Song Transposition feature allows you to quickly and easily transpose your songs between musical keys and also back and forth between Piano and Guitar style chord charts and even into the Nashville Number System!

Key Benefits: When you want to change the chords of your song to another key and you want the chords of the new key to appear (verses just numbers like with the Nashville Number System) simply use this feature.

This helps to prepare your song in any key you need quickly and writes in the new chords for you. Real handy when your singer wants to sing in F and your song is in C. Also works great when the Nashville Number System is not familiar to your musicians or singers.

Reason #5 - All New User Interface :
New tools required new buttons so a whole new look was produced that kept the easy on the eye functionality of the earlier version and made a whole new mission control panel with everything pertinent to today's songwriting.

Key Benefits: Quickly see and click on all the important tools for making your songs superb. The rhymer, thesaurus, chord sheet set ups, spell check, etc. are all right in view along the top menu bar in big bold buttons.