The Songbook Committee circulate test songs at the jam session before being officially added to the SOUP songbook. Those songs are being tested at jam sessions, you can tell because they won't appear in the official songbook list and are not yet assigned a number.
About Our Songbook - Printed and Tablet
New songs will be released throughout the year, you need to print them yourself and update your print version of songbooks.
SOUP Tablet songs are auto loaded
Print Version of SOUP Songbook - PDF versions of new songs are available on this page for you to download and print.
Understanding the Song Markups
1. When chords are in parentheses, e.g. (G7) (C), they are only played only at end of a song.
2. Chords in parentheses at the end of a chorus, don’t play them until the last time through the song.
3. Slash marks, e.g. / / / / represent rhythm in some Intros, Outros, and Instrumental Bridges, to guide the beat count in tricky sections of some songs. Each slash represents one beat.
4. A chord with slashes means number of beats to play on that chord; e.g. C / means do a single strum on C. C / / / / means do 4 beats on C. This way of using slash marks is specific to the SOUP Songbook, and may not be similar to slash marks used in music notation you have seen elsewhere.
5. Notation for downstrums (d) and upstrums (u), is used for some suggested strumming patterns. Capital D or U means the emphasized beat. So, e.g. a calypso strum, which has its emphasis on the second beat, may be indicated as: dDu udu.
6. During a Jam Session, a Jam Leader will sometimes give a beat count to help with the count between sections of a song, such as between a bridge and verse. This count is sometimes on the song shown in parentheses (2 3 4 1 2 3 4).