Matt, I think when you saw Alto and "G" in the same sentence you assumed G Alto flute, but I am sure that Philandre meant he has an alto sax part written in G, which as he said, is the concert key of Bb.

So, the question is what is the best way of entering the chords in the key of G so that they sound in the concert key of Bb.

I mentioned that this is much easier in the new version than in old versions. I don't know when this changed was but you can do a simple experiment to see which way it works for you in your BB 2008.
- Open a new song.
- Set the notation transposition to Eb Alto Sax
- type in a G chord in the chord sheet.
- if the chord shows up as an E chord than this is the old behavior. This is how it worked in BB 2007. The chords you type are treated as concert key chords. The G concert key chord = an E chord for alto sax.
- if the chord shows up as a G chord then your version of BB acts like BB 2011 does. Simply follow my instruction in the previous post. In summary, you set the notation to alto sax, and type in the chords as they are written the alto sax part. That's all. Hit the play button.

As Matt mentioned, you can always use transposition to compensate in the older versions. I think I have an easier method of doing that, which I will outline in the most generic format. You should be able to use this with music written for instruments in any key. (These steps are only needed if your version of BB does not fuction like the new BB)


- Start a new song
- Set the notation options for Concert pitch
- Set the key signature to the key of the music you want to input
- Type in the chords as they are written in the sheet music
- When you are done, change the key signature to the correct concert key. Say YES to the ok to transpose question.
- Finally, change the notation option to display for the transposing instrument

So, for your specific example
- For the 3rd step, your written music is in G. Set the key signature for G.
- For the 5th step, the concert key is Bb.
- In the final step, Change the notation transposition to Eb alto.
- the result will by chords that play in the concert key of Bb, but which are displayed in the key of G for your instrument.

After you have created a BB song in this fashion and need to make a correction to a chord, type in corrected chord using the concert pitch -- you don't want to have to transpose the song multiple times again just to make a few minor changes.