Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I play some Bb instruments and I've answered this question a few times in the past. Where we sometimes miscommunicated was based on exactly how the song was entered.

You said you are reading an Abersold Bb book. Did you enter the song exactly as in the book, and did not use BIAB to transpose? If yes, I can talk you through it. One other question: did you enter the key of the song into BIAB? Or just leave it as C, the default? And, what is the key of the song as it appears in the fake book? If you can answer these questions, I or others will give you the steps so it looks and works correctly.


Hello Matt and thanks for your offer to help. The subject does tend to get a bit merky if not careful.

To make it a little clearer, the Jamey Abersold series is no real problem considering it also lists the chords in concert key which can be entered as such and then transposed into the appropriate chords for the Tenor sax.

The Jazz Patterns book is in concert only and it's important for me to be able to enter and keep the chords in BIAB as typed in correspondence with what is in the book in the event I have a track playing in the absence of BIAB and am reading from the book.

Also if I decide to enter various chords and scales I am having trouble with independent of any book, I need to be able to have BIAB play in the proper key relative to Tenor.

Initially I set everything to default concert, including the key signature next to the Tempo on the permanent BIAB dash which was set to "C". I would then enter my chords as written in the book, click on the key signature and select change key signature to Bb without transposing the chords. I only tried it once or twice but noted the track was not in the proper key when playing.

I arrived at the chord display icon after further reading and although I could not keep the entered chords unchanged when transposing, it did produce the proper key in the track.