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When I first load BIAB I get the C chord preselected in the Chord Sheet as usual.

If I now select the Chord Builder - Progression tab I get the suggested blue and orange chords, but if I click on the Key of C box (bottom left) the orange selection keeps changing - why is this ?

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As explained in the Bootcamp video that orange outlined chord is not is the scale of C major but it can be used to add something interesting and change the direction of the progression.


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Yes I understand that, but why does it select a different orange chord each time I press the 'Key of C' box in the lower left corner. I would have thought all the orange chords would be the same for a C chord.


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Originally Posted by GAJ52
Yes I understand that, but why does it select a different orange chord each time I press the 'Key of C' box in the lower left corner. I would have thought all the orange chords would be the same for a C chord.

Yea I am not sure about the full intention there but I thought perhaps they were trying to be like Scaler plugin by sending the chord progression in a different path.
But I have not given it a full play around as of yet.


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The “orange” highlited chords are indeed variations.
So following a C chord, there may be 5 standard chords that would follow it. And maybe 4 ”interesting” chords that we would highlight in orange, by default, we just show one of the 4 (at random) because we don’t want to overwhelm by showing a bunch of orange chords. There is a checkbox, to show all of them at once, which allows to override and see them al, at once.


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Ok I now understand why this is happening, thank you Peter for your explanation smile

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