Hi David and Graeme, David, you don’t have to attach chords to entries any more. So your method of entering 4 quarters and then trying things didn’t need the 4 quarters. This is a blessing and a curse, in that you don’t have to enter notes (or rests in my former case, so they don’t play back) but if you have rhythmic notation you DO need to enter notes (to turn into stemmed slashes) and that ends up spacing those surrounding measures differently. It also makes it next to impossible to resize chord symbols.
Also, don’t transpose chords by a DIATONIC third! Make it a minor third! That’s very important. It’s only coincidence that it worked with a C note; it won’t work with an E, for example. Graeme, the way I would do that particular task is transpose the chords instead, which is only one operation. This can be found in Utilities menu>Change>Chords… Transpose. Make sure you transpose the chords up a minor third if the notes are in in alto key. Christopher > On Mar 14, 2017, at 7:31 AM, David H. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/14/2017 5:00 AM, Graeme Gerrard wrote: >> Well, I have a question about chords and melodies. I play alto sax and want >> to print my sax lines out transposed so I can read them. But if I put chord >> symbols over the bar, Finale likes to transpose the chords too! I get around >> this by putting a second stave, for piano, and put the chord symbols in that >> staff. So that’s ok as a work around and I just print the sax part, without >> the piano chords. >> Do you get what I mean? >> Is there a better way around this? What do other sax players do? >> > > Most of the time people playing transposing instruments would rather see > the chords in the correct key for their instrument. So a C7 chord would > show as an A7 chord for alto sax so that an alto player looking to > improvise only needs to think about the A7 chord and doesn't have to > think "C7 should be A7 on my instrument." But I can understand you > wanting to do as you ask if you want a pianist or guitarist to simply > play an accompaniment without doing anything with the melody. Of course > you can accomplish that by creating your leadsheet for alto sax, > printing the alto sax part, then printing the same thing in concert > pitch and then your accompanist will see the proper melody and chord > agreement and you'll have the alto sax part to play from. > > One way to accomplish what you want: > 0) if playback is important, set the instrument as you want either in > the setup wizard or change the instrument using the Score Manager. > 1) Document Menu - Display In Concert Pitch > 2) enter the notes and chords in concert pitch > 3) select the music, use the Utilities/Transpose to transpose down a > diatonic third > 4) Use the key signature tool to change the key to what you want to > reflect the key you want the music in. > You should end up with what you want -- the notes transposed for alto > sax and the chords in the original concert pitch. > > I just did that experiment creating a measure in concert pitch, 4 > quarter notes C with a C7 chord above the first note. > > I ended up with the notes in the key of A but with the chord still > showing as C7. > > I think that's essentially what you want. > > > -- > ***** > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
