HI Noel,
Was looking at an old post of yours on pedal notes. from 2008.

"Hi Ian,

It sounds like the SGU file's creator has used what music theorists call pedal point. What the (P4) is indicating is that you have a bass note set for 4 bars.

This is accomplished by right-clicking on the chord sheet and selecting "Chord Settings" from the pop-up menu (ALT+F5 is the shortcut).

Here's an example. (no example)

You can see that bar 1 has C/E(P4).

Opening the "Chord settings" dialogue shows that the bass note for the chord has been set to E (#2) and that it lasts for 4 bars (#3). This note E is set to be played on beats 2 & 4 (#4). Because of this setting, whatever chords I put in the first 4 bars, the bass will always play 'E' (even if "/bass note" is not used).

If you want to clear these, simply click on the "Clear all bars" button (#5).

Pedal point is an excellent way of creating musical tension.

Hope this helps,
Noel

I can't find "Chord Settings" I believe this is now Chord Picker.

Setting a basic slash note is easy. I dont see any way to continue the slach note for four bars, except for making independent chords. I dont know what your # signs mean - i think they are pointing to something on the GUI? You say "whatever chords I put in the first 4 bars, the bass will always play 'E' (even if "/bass note)" is not used.

Any thoughts please?

Z

Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k