Originally Posted by AudioTrack
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to highlight only half of the chord cell. There are ways to change the colors of many parts of the chord cell display, but they all seem to work on the entire chord cell. Others may know more.
That's correct - there is no way to highlight each beat in the chord sheet. It may be better to view the Notation Window, as that will highlight notes as they play - different than chords I know, but it shows the chords there too.

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