Chord names

The Attach tools, and chord symbols over the score, from the root, the quality and the bass note.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

The Attach tools

In Edit, Attach is among the tools’ categories: what it puts on the score is attached to the beat at the cursor, not to a note. Its buttons, left to right:

• Chord: a chord name over the beat (below).
• Diagram: a chord diagram (see Chord diagrams).
• Tempo: a tempo mark at the start of the bar (see Time and tempo).
• Text: words above the beat (see Lyrics and text).
• Lyrics 1 to Lyrics 5: the words sung, on one of five lines (see Lyrics and text).
• Section: a section’s name at the bar, Intro, Verse, Chorus (see Repeats and sections).
• Clef: the clef from the bar (see Standard notation).
• Glyph: any symbol of the music font (see Lyrics and text).

With the Select tool and beats selected, Text and Lyrics attach to the first of them. On the Mac, they are in the Score menu: Chord Name ⌘K, Chord Diagram ⇧⌘K, Tempo Marker ⇧⌘T, Text, Lyrics, Rehearsal Sign, Clef ⇧C and Glyph Browser….

Adding a chord name

Put the cursor on the beat where the chord starts and choose Attach › Chord. In the Chord Name dialog, the chord’s name shows at the top right as you build it:

• Root Note: the twelve notes; ♭ at the end of the row names them with flats (B♭ rather than A♯).
• Quality: the chord’s kind, grouped as Triads, 7th, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th, Add and Special: major, minor, diminished, sus4, maj7, m7♭5…
• Symbol, when the quality is written more than one way: min, m or - for a minor chord, maj7, M7 or Δ7 for a major seventh.
• Inversion, for a chord over another bass note: the chord’s notes, the one you choose in the bass (C/E).

Apply writes the name over the beat, above the track’s staves.

Changing a chord name

To change a chord name, choose the Select tool, tapclick it, then tapclick it again for its popup, and choose Edit: the dialog opens with the chord as it is. Its font is Chord, in Score Style › Fonts.