AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
![]() This time I'm going to click edit here in the chord definition dialog. So let's go ahead and double click that box again. Now I could create it all over again, but I can actually go back and edit the one I started with and create a group which will create that same chord voicing for every other scale step. And I want to use the same chord voicing, just down two frets. As I look down the way, I see that I've got the same chord down here at the very end. Is selected now in the Fretboard Selection dialog. And that's looking pretty good, so I'll click okay. So I'm going to click the x, and put those above that staff. So I'm going to choose that symbol, and I'll click and drag that in. ![]() And I'll click those dots in, and these two are going to be barred by the same finger. Then I want to add some dots onto these strings, so I'll grab the dot icon there. Now this particular chord voice thing that I want to use starts on the 5th fret, so I'm going to go down to the fretboard number area and I'm going to enable the Show Fretboard Number, and I'm going to type a 5 right there. And let's go back to the standard guitar. And I can stipulate which instrument that I'm creating this for, so if I say for Ukulele, you'll notice that it immediately goes to four stings. So I might want to give this a name, so let's call this 7, and in parenthesis, I'll put #9 comma lower case b, one-three for the 13th, and close parenthesis. Which will bring me into the fretboard editor where I can create one from scratch. And I don't like it, so I'm going to go ahead and click the create button. When I click select and go into the box, there's only one for that actual chord symbol. This time, I'm just going to double-click on one of the handles, and it takes us straight there. ![]() So I'm going to go back into that Edit Definition dialogue box. As I move over here to the left, the next couple are okay, but I really don't like this a seven altered chord that they've used. And that comes out into the score, and that looks good. I like this one right here, so I'll choose that, I'll click Select, and I'll click OK. And if you click the select button it'll take you into a selection dialogue box where you can choose from the available fretboards. Now when this dialogue pops up, notice that underneath the actual chord symbol the first thing you see is this fretboard area. And I'm going to right click and I'm going to choose Edit Chord Definition. So I'm going to click on the handle of either the chord or the fretboard. And these aren't bad but I really don't like this first C major voicing. So now that we're in the chord tool I'm taking a look at the fretboard diagrams that have appeared. And again, I'm just eyeballing that, that might be a little bit tight. So I'll grab the far left triangle, and I'll pull that down. And now the same thing will work for the chords. And then I'm going to go back up to the chord menu, and I'm going to choose position chords. So I'll grab that, I'll drag that down a little bit. Remember that one on the far left will allow you to change the baseline for the entire score for either the fret boards or the chords. ![]() And now I can use the positioning triangles over here on the left to do that. I'm going to begin by going up to Chord and saying Position Fret Boards. Now, when that comes in, this is a bit high over the staff, so I'm going to make some adjustments here. Now, if you remember from the earlier video, we can go to the chord tool, and then up to the chord menu, and choose show fretboards. And I'm going to begin by showing the fretboards and the score. So I've opened up the 12_01 Fretboards Start file. If you're as picky as I am, you may want to choose specific chord voicings, which might require you to create custom fretboard diagrams. If you're notating lede sheets or guitar specific music, you may want to add fretboard diagrams to your scores.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |