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Greetings fellow forum-ers...
This is driving me nuts. I suspect everyone has asked this question at one point in the past - How do I change the spelling of the chord???
For example, I have a 5-1 pair of chords Eb7 - Ab7.
BIAB insists on making the Ab7 a G#7.
HOW do I change that???
much thanks,
phil
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What's the main Key Signature window set to at the time?
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Oh my gosh - that was it! I changed it to Db, wihtout transposing the entire song and it changed.
I've been struggling with that for years!
THANKS!!!!!!!
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From Mac's post, you have discovered one of the seemingly least known important facts of BIAB. The program makes intelligent decisions based on the key signature. The first thing I do starting a new song is set the key signature.
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From Mac's post, you have discovered one of the seemingly least known important facts of BIAB. The program makes intelligent decisions based on the key signature. The first thing I do starting a new song is set the key signature.
Everyone who has forgotten to set the key sig properly wave your hands........... OMG...the wind just gusted to 40 MPH!!! (-: Jim
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uh-oh. I just upgrade to 2014 - now that doesn't seem to work...
Anyone have an idea?
thanks,
pg
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Hi pg,
Could you please give a little more information. What doesn't seem to work? What is your key signature and what chords are a problem? (The key signature is located beside the tempo on 2014.)
Kind regards,
Noel
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Sigh,
My humble apologies. My whole thread was simply not clear.
I'm in the habit of creating practice songs where I go through the circle of fifths. So specifically in this instance, I have the song set to the key of C, and at one point the 2-5-1 will be displayed as Db-7 Gb7 Bmaj7.
I would prefer it to read C#-7 F#7 Bmaj7.
I'm not at all certain how to do that...
much thanks,
phil
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Hi Phil,
Put the mouse cursor on the bar in question, press F5 and try setting the key signature at that bar to B major. What BIAB displays is dependent on the key signature that is set.
When you change the key signature, it will probably make some of the latter progressions show up differently and, if it does, you'll need to adjust the key signature at those bars.
I suspect that you have the original key set to C. While this will work for many of the progressions, it has limitations.
Hope this helps,
Noel
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Thanks much Noel (nice music on your vimeo site btw),
That didn't work. Not a big deal, it's mostly an issue with the cycle stuff anyway. It'll sure teach me to know the enharmonic name...
phil
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Hi Phil,
Thanks for listening to some of my music. Much appreciated.
What version of BIAB do you have? A change of key signature usually resolves enharmonic issues. Did you try changing the key to F# and C# major too? That's worth a shot.
All the best,
Noel
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