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I have a sax part with some improvisation so it includes chord symbols. When the part is transposed the chords correctly transpose.

 

However sometimes the notes have so many accidentals that they need to be changed enharmonically for ease of reading, however I cannot find a way to enharmonically change the chords to match for the changed regions.

Does anyone have a solution please. This is a huge piece and I'm seriously hoping that the only solution is NOT to re-enter them all manually

 

Thanks

 

Peter

Peter West

Music Publishing Services.

 

 

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Not a great solution, but I have gone in and manually edited each chord (and then perhaps used copy/paste for similar chord changes). 

Not ideal.

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Peter West,

 

I wonder whether you have tried the Change Utility?

 

Utilities menu > Change > Chords…

 

You can use the Transpose option to transpose the chords chromatically up or down a diminished second.

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Thanks Adrian, but manually re-entering is what I'm hoping to avoid.

 

Peter, yes, I did think of this. I cannot see how to transpose chords Chromatically in the JW Change tool. It looks to me as though it only allows diatonic transposition within the current key.

 

I did try setting up a Saxophone in D sharp instead of E flat, but chords only transpose correctly for the preset instrument transpositions not custom ones.  part of the problem is that the music has no key signatures and the chord definitions are very complex. When switching transposition son and off they change accordingly, but not on a "D sharp sax" staff.

 

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… Peter, yes, I did think of this. I cannot see how to transpose chords Chromatically in the JW Change tool …

 

I am not talking about the third party JW Change plug-in, but rather about Finale’s “own” Utilities menu.

 

Utilities menu > Change > Chords…

 

You can use the Transpose option to transpose the chords chromatically up or down a diminished second.

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Brilliant, thank you. I didn't know that was there!!!!

Peter

 

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Peter (T), thank you for bringing my attention to that feature. I use Change a lot - particularly for articulations and tuplets -, but as I work so infrequently with Chords it passed me by. You saved me many hours as this was a mammoth job of over 100 pages of solo Sax part. 

 

All the best

Peter

 

 

 

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