Concert Key Chords For Transposed Staff With Key Signature
By admin on Feb 13, 2008 in Advanced Tips, Finale Tools, Staff Styles
There is a way, but it takes a few steps:
CONCERT KEY CHORDS FOR TRANSPOSED STAFF WITH KEYSIGNATURE
1. Add staff above the transposed instrument by going to STAFF –>NEW STAVES…
2. Copy the music you need from the transposed staff into the new staff and the chords will be in concert pitch
3. Go to the Staff Attributes for that staff by double-clicking the staff with the STAFF TOOL and then unchecking everything at the bottom except ALLOW OPTIMIZATION and CHORDS
4. Highlight the entire new staff only and then go to the Staff Menu –>Apply Staff Style and choose BLANK NOTATION LAYER 1 and the notes will disappear in that new staff
5. Go to the Staff Attributes of the Transposed staff and either remove the Chords by unchecking them in the Display items, or simply remove them completely from that staff
6. Now in Scroll View or Page, use the Staff Tool to drag the handle for the top staff that has just the chords displaying lower so that they are where the chords would normally be.
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On Jul 23, 2008, Jim Cooper said:
Ran into this problem doing an arrangement of the theme from “Twin Peaks” for jazz quintet (the first dance at my upcoming wedding!)
There’s an easier way to do this:
Before extracting parts, click the Staff tool and go to Staff Attributes –> Transposition. Click on the “Chromatic” transposition rather than the “Key Signature.”
Now go back and change the key signature on the staff from the concert key to the transposed key (make sure you’ve selected “hold notes to original pitches enharmonically!”)
Now you can extract parts with chords that remain in the concert key.
Excellent blog, thank you!
On Nov 12, 2008, Eddy Lang said:
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