b13 wrote:notion FORGETS this chord instead holding it for further entries without changings (strumming) or for changing the dots on the fretboard.
In some respects, it is a bit annoying that the dots for the chord disappear when you press the Return key (a.k.a., "Enter" key) to write the notes for the chord onto the guitar tab or bass tab, such that to enter four quarter note strums of the same chord, you have to use the mouse to click on the fretboard to do the dots for each strum, when you should need to do it only one time to establish the current chord, followed by pressing the Return key four times, but stuff happens, and there are other ways to do it if you think about it for a while, where instead of doing repeated strums via fretboard chord input mode, you can use the copy and paste strategy . . .
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NOTE: Whether this is a bug is another matter, because if the dots for a chord are not cleared every time the Return key is pressed, then you have to remember to set or to clear the dots for each string when you switch to a different chord, which is a bit awkward at best, and as explained later in this post I think that guitar players who use guitar tabs nearly always primarily are "play by ear" folks, hence will input the music notation using a faster technique, where they use fretboard chord input mode only to create the first instance of a chord, since once established as music notation and guitar tab, it is easier and faster to switch to the copy and paste strategy, where the key bit of information about "play by ear" musicians is that they use a lot of mnemonics and shortcuts to remember stuff, because they do not use sheet music and generally would not know what to do with sheet music other than to get the lyrics and chord names, if there are chord names . . . ]
Reflecting on this for a moment, I think it depends on the way one composes chord patterns, where the way I do it is to use a real guitar and to fiddle with the chord pattern until I am satisfied with it. Then I switch to NOTION 4 and begin inputting the chord pattern, where since at this point I know the chord pattern I also know how many chords there are in the pattern, and all I need to input via fretboard chord input mode is one quarter note chord for each chord in the pattern, where for example if the chords for the song are the set {C, Am, F, G, G7}, then I only need to input five chords, at which point (a) I have all the chords or shapes and (b) I then can switch out of fretboard chord input mode and copy and paste the chords to the respective measures, making adjustments to the note durations to match the strumming pattern I want to use, which is the way "play by ear" guitar players remember songs, which is important because they do not use sheet music, hence need to have a mnemonic system for remembering perhaps four hours of songs and to be able to recall what to play at the correct times virtually instantly, where using "Bewildered" (James Brown & The Famous Flames) as an example, all I need to know is (C, Am, F, G, G7}, but I condense it to "Sleepwalk" and depending on the singer map it to F, which is the key of the "Bewildered" as it was originally recorded, where the mnemonic is {"Sleepwalk" in F, kind of peppy with a bit of intentional ritardando to accent the one}, which condenses to ("Sleepwalk", F, JB}, where "JB" refers to "James Brown", and with that simple mnemonic I can play all the instruments in the song on a real drumkit, Hammond B3 organ with a Leslie cabinet at medium speed, an electric guitar with a bit of reverb, and an electric bass (either a Fender Jazz Bass or a Fender Precision Bass), which is close enough for government work, because the horns are extraordinarily subtle in this song, if there are horns, which at present I think there are, although perhaps not . . .
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NOTE: I checked wikipedia, and it says there are drumkit, electric guitar, electric bass, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone on the 1958 version, but there is a Hammond B3 organ with a Leslie cabinet on this version, and I hear horns, although mostly just doing textured accents in the background . . . ]
It also depends on the types of songs, but for the types of songs one typically hears on the radio or whatever, (a) there are distinct patterns (verse, chorus, bridge, interlude, and so forth) and (b) the high-level patterns nearly always repeat, which makes the copy and paste technique considerably faster, but it requires
planning the structure of the song in advance, which is fabulous . . .
Fabulous!