Chords symbol transposed in drums

[catatonic]

Hi guys! I have a score for a typical pop band and when I copy and paste the chords from any staff to the drum staff, the chords get transposed to the key of C, no matter the actual key of the piece. How do I fix that? Thanks!

Finale 25.2

Mac OS 10.10.3

[Peter Thomsen]

Normally you do not add chord symbols to a drum part since the drummer can not play any pitches.

Hence a drum staff in Finale normally defaults to the key of C major (=> no key signature).

An idea for a quick fix:
Selection Tool.
Select the entire drum staff - this step will select all the drum staff chords.
Then go to
Utilities menu > Change > Chords…
Use the option Transpose to transpose the chord symbols to the desired key. (remember to put a check mark in the square)

[catatonic]

Thanks! In this instance, the drummer:

a) is the band leader
b) is musically litterate
c) has perfect pitch
d) requested the chords

So I have no choice. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try it and report the result.

[motet]

Another approach would be to add another non-percussion staff above for the chords, which I think you can make invisible except for the chords.

[catatonic]

One of the other issues here is that there several different keys in the part, so Peter's method doesn't really solve the problem. I need to be able to transpose specific sections.

[catatonic]

Actually, Peter's method works perfectly. All I had to do was select the section I want to transpose instead of selecting the whole part. Problem solved!