Searching your repertoire¶

The Home, Play, and Public pages all contain a search box that uses the same logic.

Basic search¶

By default, every field is searched for your search term. If you enter multiple terms, the search uses AND logic to combine them. For example, if you search monk you will see all tunes with monk in any fields (usually composer). If you search monk bud, you will only see “In Walked Bud,” since that is the only tune that contains both terms.

Jazz composer names have built-in substitutions using their nicknames or first names, so searching miles will return Miles Davis tunes, bird will return Charlie Parker tunes, etc. Note that in a default search, the nickname term will also searched in other fields, so bird will also return the tune “Bye Bye Blackbird.” If you want only tunes composed by Charlie Parker, use a field-specific search (see below).

The default search is often sufficient, since the contents of the fields tend to be mutually exclusive: the search term love probably only refers to the contents of the Title field, Golson to the composer field, etc. However, some terms and fields are trickier. If you want to search for the key of Ab using the default search, your query Ab will also pick up any song forms containing the sequence AB, which is almost all of them. For such cases you can use field-specific search.

Field-specific search¶

You can use the format field:term to search a specific field. Currently supported fields are title, composer, key (the key column, a tune’s main key), keys (both the Key and Other Keys columns), form, style, meter, year, and tags.

Term exclusion¶

Use a - before a term to exclude it from the search results. This can also be used on a field-specific search: for example, -meter:4 will return all tunes not in 4.

Timespan filtering: Haven’t Played In¶

The haven’t played in dropdown lets you filter by how long it’s been since you’ve played a tune. This allows you to easily target tunes at the highest risk of being forgotten.

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Timespan filtering is one of the most useful parts of the app!