Chord Problem

[toktiny]

Hi Sherry
My sincere thanks for your prompt reply.
I understand all of what you have written regarding the choosing of the appropriate staves that contribute to the "correct" base chord. On this point I always choose a minimum of staffs or intruments that provide the melody, this is a lot of the time depending on the MIDI , ether one or two very seldom any more. On your advice about the selection of chord types, I bought Notation Musician before I bought Notation Composer and Musician had "Rock" as the preselected choice and Composer had "Default" so that I have tried both of these choices. I will now confine it to "Rock". As regards my personal choice of chords I am very happy with the basic chords and also very happy to play in keys with just one or two sharps or flats.
You asked if there was a particular file that was giving me a hard time. The answer here is that I have failed to find a file that was easy, some naturally are much more difficult than others and this seems to rely on the number of staffs which are necessary to provide the melody. If I can find a MIDI with the complete melody being provided by one instrument and am able just to select one staff then this is much easier than when you have say three staffs selected, in this instance I would have to remove all chords provided and try and choose as best as I can an alternative chord. In the case of the one staff selection I find that I only have to change about half of the chords provided.
I attach a recent MIDI file, which I used of the Blue Danube. In this file there are two instruments which intermittently provide the melody "Violin 1" and "Flutes". Now the only way that I could provide a sheet for this was to do two separate sheets and marry the two at the appropriate sections and then manually put in chords. I would be very appreciative if you could have a look at this and perhaps let me know the best way to achieve a complete sheet as I feel that I am making a mountain out of a molehill the way that I do it.
Thanks again for your help for I feel that once I get the hang of how to do it, Notation Composer will be fantastic software for me to use.

Kind regards
Toni

[Sherry C]

Hi Toni,

Sorry for the late reply here - this one slipped between a few other items going on.

Originally Posted by toktiny

As regards my personal choice of chords I am very happy with the basic chords and also very happy to play in keys with just one or two sharps or flats.

You can also play around with the other default settings (eg. Country, Classical) in the drop list, or create your own set by using the check boxes.

I attach a recent MIDI file, which I used of the Blue Danube. In this file there are two instruments which intermittently provide the melody "Violin 1" and "Flutes". Now the only way that I could provide a sheet for this was to do two separate sheets and marry the two at the appropriate sections and then manually put in chords. I would be very appreciative if you could have a look at this and perhaps let me know the best way to achieve a complete sheet as I feel that I am making a mountain out of a molehill the way that I do it.

Since you want to get this file into a usable piano fake sheet style score, I'd suggest using Staff/Merge Staves and put the violin 1 and flute staff into a single staff. This would then be the "melody line" staff for the fake sheet.

For the chord names, since this file contains a little bit of "slow-walking bass", you may want to try using the "Find slash chords..." option in the lower left of the Chord Analysis dialog, and select the "bass" staff for that determination. You can experiment with the different chord name styles (from the drop list) and see what gives you the best results.

If you want the accompaniment as a two-hand part, you can use Staff/Merge to put the remaining staves into a single staff (excluding the "Melody" staff created above) and then use Staff/Split hands on that merged staff to give the accompaniment in a two-hand bracketed pair of staves.

Hope this is helpful!
Sherry