Sometimes in a big band arrangement where there is a complex chord with a lot of extensions, the guitar might play a chord based on the higher extensions. Many guitar players will know how to do this when reading a chord symbol with a lot of alterations, but Is there a way to give the guitar a chord symbol that’s different from the underlying chord symbol to simplify what they play?
Do both chords in your example have to be input as local chord symbols? It’s not working for me, but I assume I’m not doing it right.
If I change the top chord symbol to Dbmin7 using Opt-L, it changes the bottom symbol as well. The 3. Optional note refers to changing the chord symbol “type” and in the example it changes to a different type of chord but based on the same root. I need to change the root as well as the type of chord. Is that possible?
Hi FredGUnn. I figured it out. I didn’t recognize the little head icon in the chord popover, but eventually saw it and used that. Thanks for the help.
Glad you got it working! Holding down Opt/Alt activates that too so after you input the chord in the popover, Alt+Enter will input it as local.
