Oh boy, I just got finished solving this for a tenor sax player.
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First, a question if you will: do you have a leadsheet for concert pitch? Or just the bari part? I play several transposing instruments and always work in concert pitch for several reasons. I can solve your problem, but first, do you have the chords in concert pitch?
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How can I enter chords from my Eb (bari sax) lead sheet into BIAB have the sound correctly transposed?
Matt was very helpful to me in solving a related question, so let's see if I can pay it forward.
More details in a moment, but there's two ways you can handle this: (1) enter the chords in concert key and then transpose the display; or (2) transpose the display first and then enter the chords as they are in the bari sax lead sheet. Whichever way you do this, the crucial thing is that you set your key signature to the concert key.
So let's say the song you have in mind is Lady Bird by Tadd Dameron. Your bari part is in A, so that means it's concert C. The steps below are for option 2 above, which should be easier than converting your existing chart to concert.
1. Start a new song in BIAB and set the key signature to C (it should default to that for a new song, but if not, make sure it's set to C). 2. Click the little button next to the key signature to bring up the transposition options. In the section that says "visually transpose the notation for non-concert instruments," find the option for "baritone sax +21" and click on it. You'll see the key signature has not changed to A, it's still C; to the right of the C you'll see +21. 3. Enter your chord chart from your bari lead sheet. In our Lady Bird example, that would be AMaj7 for bars 1-2, D-7 in bar 3, G7 in bar 4 and so on.
When you play this back, you'll hear it in concert key (C), but your chords will be in A for bari. If for some reason you wanted to go with option 1 above (enter the chords in concert key first then transpose), I'm sure you can figure out how to do that, but either way, your final result will be the same.
The photo below shows a chart I entered for my tenor sax (note the +14 next to the key signature). But my mistake was transposing the key signature also, from D to E. Matt got me straightened out on that.
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