Fretboard diagrams

Creating guitar-fretboard chord diagrams is easy in SongWriter; they’re intelligent, too, because they transpose automatically when the music is transposed.

To create or show fretboard diagrams globally

1. Click the Chord tool . The Chord Menu appears.
2. Choose Chord > 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

1. 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).
2. Choose Chord > Position Fretboards. You’ve just told SongWriter that the triangles should adjust the baseline for the diagrams instead of the textual chord symbols.
3. 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.

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