Eftwyrd wrote:Am I missing something or are the Chord variations which were present in Notion 3 gone?
For example a Bm Chord. There is only ONE style of the chord! For example I want the chord played on the seventh Fret or just other fingerstyle...in Notion 3 there were many many variations. I would need this to use other Chord positions while working with slash marks. Otherwise it just sounds wrong. SO anybody can help?
As best as I have been able to determine, they are gone . . . The NOTION 4 User Manual specifically refers to the word "More" appearing once you have a basic chord pattern selected, and I suppose the idea is that by clicking on "More" you are presented with other fingering options, but there is no "More" word anywhere, so my best guess at present is that the "More" feature is gone . . .
However, once you make sense of how it works--which takes a while--you can specify notes on the fretboard and audition the resulting chord, which might work if you actually play guitar and know a good bit about guitar chords and different voicings . . .
Nevertheless, I think there is a practical way to do what you want to do, and after doing a bit of experimenting over several hours I am beginning to see a solution . . .
Using the chord library and fretboard is not so intuitive for me, and they do not appear to interact the way I would prefer, but once you have a chord pattern box above the guitar notation staff and have added some rhythm slash notes for strumming, you can select the chord pattern box and its notes appear on the fretboard, where you then can change the notes on the fretboard, which in turn changes the chord pattern box (
see the screen capture below) . . .
However, changing the finger positions for the chord pattern box does
not change the name of the chord, but you can ignore chord names, but you can use one of the web-based "chord name" programs to determine a good name for the chord, where the "chord name" programs are similar to the NOTION 4 fretboard, so you just put the dots in the right places; press a button; and a name or set of possible names for the chord appears . . .
This is a non-standard use, but the notes play correctly and once you do it for a few chord patterns, it is very easy to do when you know guitar chords . . . As an example, I had a bit of FUN with some chords which essentially would be impossible to play but sound very nice, and after devising a nice pattern, I added a chord which is easy to play, but the problem was getting it drawn as a chord pattern box with the correct fingering, with this leading after a few hours to discovering the aforementioned technique . . .
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NOTE: I call this chord "D9", even though technically it is a "Minor 6th", but I also call it a "Middle Stormy Monday" chord (as contrasted to a "Low Stormy Monday" chord), which works for me, since the notes are what matters and the chord pattern box correctly indicates the notes, where for reference it is a Rhythm and Blues, as well as a Jazz, chord, and it has the same finger pattern as a four-finger diminished chord played on the four highest pitch strings, hence is an outstanding chord when you need to play something but have no idea what key the song is in, or anything else about the song, because if you play it quickly in several different locations on the fretboard, it sounds as if you actually know what you are doing . . . ]
(1) You create a chord pattern box, which can be any chord, where C Major works just as well as any other chord . . .
(2) Then you insert or place the chord pattern box on top of the music notation staff for the NOTION 4 bundled Electric Guitar . . .
(3) Then you insert four quarter notes anywhere on the music notation staff, observing that these will be changed to rhythm slashes in the next step . .
(4) Select the measure, including the chord pattern box and the four quarter notes you entered, and then right click and change the quarter notes to rhythm slashes . . .
At this point, you have a chord pattern box and four rhythm slashes to strum the chord on each of the four beats of the measure, which is fine for sketching the chord pattern for a song . . .
Now you can select the measure and copy it to the clipboard, followed by pasting it at the start of the next measure, and then you can select the chord pattern box and change the notes via the fretboard . . .
The chord name will be wrong, although if you know the correct chord name you can change it, but regardless the correct notes for the chord you specified are played via the rhythm slashes . . .
And you could leave the names all all the chords as C and just ignore them . . .
This is a rather odd way to do a quick sketch of the chords for a song, but it works, and once you do it a few times, it is very fast when you happen to play electric guitar and know a lot of chords . . .
And it is quicker that drawing lines and dots on a note card with a pencil, which is the other way I do chord pattern sketches for songs . . .
THOUGHTS This might not be a lot of help, but I think it is a pretty cool undocumented "feature", which is fabulous . . .
Fabulous!