Okay, here we go, song is downloaded and playing first time while I type this.

First thing I notice is that while the song is in Eb, the Keysig dropdown is set to Db.

Still, it plays okay the first time and is heard in Eb as the chords on the grid indicate. (setting the keysig to Db, however, would make a notation chart that would be a needlessly hard read.)

Okay, so we have a basic I, vi, VI, V tune here.

I'm letting it play clean thru to the end at bar 134, just to be certain nothing's going on that shouldn't be.

Song played and sounded great right thru to the two bar ending.

First thing I'm going to do is correct the Keysig. So I use the keysig dropdown to select Eb instead of the savedas Db. When the prompt comes up asking to change the notation to suit the key, I say, "No" because we only want to change the keysig entry to match the chords.

Hit Gen/Play again, and the song still plays fine.

I notice that all tracks are FROZEN.

If you want to change the key, then, you must first UNfreeze all tracks, then change the key, then hit GenPlay in order to have that happen. If you don't unfreeze ALL the frozen tracks, you may have only regenerated *some* of the tracks to the new key, leaving the Frozen tracks still plodding along in the previous key, which would be rather nonmusical.

So now onto changing the kehy from Eb to D.

Since all tracks have been Frozen in this songfile, I need to unfreeze all tracks. This is best done by rightclicking on the "Combo" track button and selecting, "Unfreeze all tracks" command.

Frozen tracks are easy to spot, there will be a "snowflake" next to any frozen trackname, the asterisk or ( * ) symbol.

After I Unfroze the tracks, the asterisk is now not at each trackname, indicating that I am free to change key, edit, or otherwise invoke changes on those tracks.

So I use the keysig dropdown to select tranpsose to D from the Eb.

This time, when prompted, I say, "Yes" in order to have the chordnames and notation change to the newly selected key.

I hit Gen/Play and your song is now merrily punching it out in the key of D.

File is fine.


--Mac

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