From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: Beyond the Basics
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Additional chord symbol features - Sibelius Tutorial
From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: Beyond the Basics
Additional chord symbol features
- [Instructor] There are many additional chord symbol features found in the ribbon in Sibelius located up in the text tab in the chord symbols group. First, the add from notes feature will analyze selected notes and then input a chord symbol for you based on several settings that you make in the features dialog. Now add from notes as well as many other novelty features in the ribbon used to be a plug-in in previous versions of Sibelius. While some of these appear to be full program features, they are still plug-ins. Plug-in windows tend to be wordy and the features can be a bit quirky, sensitive or difficult to work with so you'll have to be patient and follow directions carefully when using some of these features like this one, add from notes. So for this feature to work, you have to make an edit selection of notes that contains a vertical chord. So let's first build a chord, a simple triad will do. I'm going to go up into…
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