Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial18
STOP the song. Let's edit this chord solo a little.
Open the Notation Window.
You'll notice that there is guitar tab displayed. This is because the track type for
the Melody has been set to Guitar (automatically by the Chord Solo routine).
You can change this on the Melody menu if you don't want to see tab, by setting
the track type to Normal.
On the Guitar Window. Press the Chord Step Advance buttons (INS
and DEL on the NUMPAD). These advance and highlight a chord at a time.
When you have a note or chord highlighted press the Ch- or Ch+
(Insert Guitar Chord) button on the guitar ( or 7 or 8 on the NUMPAD keypad).
Each time you press the Ch- or Ch+, you'll see that the guitar chord changes to a
different voicing, cycling through the available 5-10 voicings possible for each
chord. (Some notes won't have any chord voicings, for example a C# note on a
Cmaj7 chord, because it is always a passing tone.)
In a similar manner, you can convert a chord to a guitar note, and
use the Insert Guitar Note button for this. Pressing the N+ (or 3 or 4 on the
NUMPAD keypad) repeatedly cycles through playing the same note on all 6
strings.
Save the song as a BB song. The guitar information is stored on channels 11 to
16 of the Melody track, so it will be saved with the correct information. You can
make a MIDI file which will preserve this information, as long as the Melody
Track Type menu item is set to "Guitar".
That ends the guitar portion of the tutorial.
Let's input some Lyrics to Old Folks at Home
Load in the song, Old Folks at Home. MGU.
We'll add lyrics for the first 4 bars, "Way down upon the Swanee River …".
Open up the Notation, and choose the Melody track so that you can see the
Melody for the first 4 bars of Old Folks at Home.