Fretboard
diagrams
Creating guitar-fretboard chord diagrams
is easy in PrintMusic; they’re intelligent, too, because they transpose
automatically when the music is transposed.
To create
or show fretboard diagrams globally
- Click
the Chord tool
. The Chord
menu appears.
- From
the Chord menu, choose Show Fretboards. If you have already added
chord symbols to your piece, the guitar diagrams now appear. If you haven’t
yet added chord symbols, add them as described in Chord symbols; as you
add each chord, its fretboard diagram will also appear.
To move
the fretboard diagrams up or down
- Click
the Chord tool . The Chord
menu appears, and two small triangles appear at the left edge of the screen.
These control the baseline of the chords (against which the bottom edges
of the symbols line up).
- From
the Chord menu, choose Position Fretboards. You’ve just told PrintMusic
that the triangles should adjust the baseline for the diagrams instead
of the textual chord symbols.
- Drag
the triangle handles up or down. Drag the left triangle to set
the baseline for the entire piece. As you drag it, the other triangle
moves with it. Drag the right triangle up or down to set the baseline
for this staff, this system only.
