Hi Guys

Actually this has raised a few things I didnt previously think about in BinaB

I now see that the key sig in BinaB is a great tool for entering acidentals in a melody line automatically when composing a tune depending on the key you choose--to answer a previous point we do know the key sig by the number of # or b at the beggining--we know the simple 2 or 3, # or b and if its more we cheat and use the circle of fifths

Its not really applicable to us yet as I dont use BinaB for composing but only for playing backing tracks, mostly piano ,bass and drums.--We might have a go at composing later so well worth knowing

As we are all playing Bb instruments we just photocopy the melody line from the Fake Book, so dont print melody sheets--mind you we are thinking of inviting an Alto player so will need the melody line transposing to Eb--If I manually enter the Bb melody line into BinaB I assume I can get it to transpose to Eb for me--that sounds like a lot of effort so I'll probably just do it by hand--pity I cant scan a melody line in

To be honest though, that still doesnt explain to my thick brain why the chords shown above the Bb Fake Book are not simply in C

Chords are usually played by a rhythm section, Piano, Bass, Guitar etc which are all C instruments so if everyone wanted to play from the same sheet then they would want the chords in C---Although of course that would of course mean the the Bb player would have to transpose to get the right chords to solo over

If in fact the chords in the Bb Fake Book are already in Bb to make it easy for the Bb player to solo over then shouldnt we load the chords into BinaB with the key sig set to Bb and then get BinaB to raise them to C but NOT transpose the chordsheet

Would this give us the right result--Sorry Matt, if thats just another way of stating what you wrore

This seems the reverse of what we currently do--we load them with BinaB set to C and then get BinaB to drop them to Bb

Phil