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gsailors
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Post by gsailors » Sat May 26, 2018 3:24 pm

I'm trying to enter a Cb chord, but it keeps changing to B. How do I make it stay the way I enter it? Also, I want to enter a series of slash bars in a guitar score with a chord placed above it. How do I do that?


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N Grossingink
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Post by N Grossingink » Sat May 26, 2018 3:35 pm

1) Type Dbbb. That will do it. For what it's worth, in my experience, guitarists (jazz) would prefer seeing a B chord. Cb is very uncommon in professionally arranged music..
2) Apply the Staff Style "Slash Notation" and enter the chord as usual.

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Post by zuill » Sat May 26, 2018 3:44 pm

For the Cb issue, usually just unchecking Simplify Spelling in the Chord Tool menu is all that is needed. I only need to use the workaround in rare situations (sometimes with capo chords, for example).

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Post by gsailors » Sat May 26, 2018 3:50 pm

Thanks so much. That worked!!! I'm a happy person.

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