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Chord symbols and engraving rules: Review

Chord symbols and engraving rules: Review - Sibelius Tutorial

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Chord symbols and engraving rules: Review

- [Instructor] The cord symbols page of engraving rules, control or command shift E, is a very important first step for anyone who's going to input cord symbols into Sibelius, to adjust the overall look of the cord symbols throughout the score. Remember that when you begin inputting cord symbols into your score, regardless of how you type them in, their text will update to the global settings, that you select here on this page. So always start here before inputting cord symbols, to ensure that they will globally adjust their appearance to your liking. When you've made the selections, that you'd like an engraving rules for your cord symbols, click "OK" to save those. Now the cord symbols feature in Sibelius, Is just a special type of text style, with some fancy built-in functions, including it's link to those special settings in engraving rules. Cord symbols are designed to appear above the bar, and they attach…

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