Explode bChordb onto multiple tracks

Is there a work-around or set of short-cuts that will let me explode a chord on a specific track, onto several other , single voice, tracks ?

Howdy Richard,

Probably the best method you can use is Staff/Split melody and accompaniment. This one takes off the top notes of chords from a staff and puts them in a "melody" track, and leaves the other notes in an "accompaniment" track. This one is probably the better bet for what it sounds like you want to do. You can also try the Staff/Split hands command, but that can give you multiple notes per chord in both staves.

ttfn,
Sherry

Richard,

To make sure I understand what you want>
I assume you have one stave with Chords of a song. You want now to split the notes of the chords,
the top note to track 1, the middle note to track 2, the third/bottom not to track three.

Then I suggest to try the following.
Add staves to your notation.
Select the stave with chords.
Use the menu region - Filter notes in current region - filter top notes. This slect all top notes of the chords. Now you can copy and past these top notes onto one of the empty new staves.
After that delete all the selected top notes in the chord track.
You can repeat this procedure more time to copy the second an third, may be fourth note of the chord track to other staves.

If you want to keep your the chord notes in the chord track, then you shuold first make a copy of the Chord track, which you preserve as backup.

I hope this is what your looking for.

Cheers Jaap

Jaap & Sherry

Both of these will work. Each has it's appropriate time and place, but at least a heck of a lot easier than copy, past, etc ... you know the rest ...

thanks,
-- richard

hmmm ...
Jaap,
It looked quite logical and simple when I read your response. However, when trying it, I continue to have ALL of the vertical chord notes copied onto the empty staff, not just the top voice.

I can see the correct 'filtered' notes ( on top ) I need to copy, but I cannot get just that single series of notes ( the top ones ) to copy. The whole chord structure gets copied ??? ... even though the filter has just the top notes of each chord outlined in dark blue ...

-- richard

Hello Richard,

Sherry and Jaap have offered two different ways to do the job. Sherry's way is easier. Jaap's way will work, but two extra steps are needed. First, create a new, empty track below the chord track. After you have filtered (selected) the melody notes, use SHIFT+DOWNArrow to shift the selected notes to the new track below. Actually, Sherry's recommended Split Melody and Accompaniment command in the Staff menu is a whole lot easier; it does the exactly the same thing as all of Jaap's steps, but in one easy command.

Cheers
-- Mark

Richard,

You are right, if you filter notes in a region, the copy command
(Contr+C) does only copy the complete track, not the filtered notes.

Mark as you suggested, to use SHIFT+DOWNArrow, does not shift the selected notes to the lower track. I searched the help - userguide - and could not find this command, but remember that it should work that way??

I fully agree Sherry's way, as Mark confirmed is the way to do it.

Cheers Jaap

Thanks all,
Now that I have my solution, all that remains is to come up with the 'right chord progression' ... ( hmmm, .. let me see, maybe a SHIFT thingie might give me the correct Aug13th b9 Modal structure ).

take care,
- richard