A header written as a plain line

Genius marks song parts with a bracketed header. “Verse 1:” names a reviewed song part but is written as a plain line, so it reads as a lyric and no section is created. The bracketed form keeps the same part name.

Convention: Song parts open with bracketed headers.

Example

Verse 1:
A lyric

In the workbench this reads: Write this section header as [Verse 1].

[Verse 1]
A lyric

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Use [Verse 1]. The fix is classified as safe, so pressing it applies the edit directly — one press, one undo step.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Sources

The sources cited by this check:

Use song part headers (opens in a new tab) verified 2026-08-17 Section headers, performer legends, and four differentiation styles

Song Headers in Different Languages (opens in a new tab) verified 2026-07-24 Reviewed English section-header vocabulary