The Chord Types page appears in the Library Options property window. It also appears in various areas of Default Options, and optionally in the New Library process.
In addition to the controls shown below, there are extra buttons which are common to all property windows.
It allows you to manage the list of chord types which are used for matching, searching, filtering, relations and all other ChordWizard operations.
ChordWizard includes an extensive list of standard chord types, but you have a great deal of scope to modify this list as you see fit.
Beginners may wish to deactivate all but the basic chord types. This is done automatically for you with all libraries of Beginner playing level.
Advanced players may wish to add their own custom chord types. ChordWizard allows you to add an unlimited number of new custom chord types, and integrates them seamlessly into all operations.
Controls
Chord Types
The Chord Types list is the main feature in the Chord Types page. It has one row for each chord type that is currently defined within ChordWizard.
The list has two columns, for the Name of the chord types, and for the Degrees of the chord types.
The individual degrees of a chord type may be optional, in which case they are shown in brackets: eg. (1). Or they may be required, in which case they are shown in bold: eg. b3.
For a full discussion of the degrees of a chord type, see Degree Names in Tutorials View.
A required degree is one which must be present in a matching chord for a chordshape. Not all degrees have equal importance within a particular chord type. See Importance of Degrees for more details.
The required degrees of the standard chord types are carefully chosen to give optimum results. However, you can override these settings.
Activate
Deactivate
ChordWizard uses only the active chord types in the Chord Types list. Active chord types appear in black text, while inactive chord types appear in gray text.
You may activate or deactivate any of the chord types with the Activate and Deactivate buttons. These will change the activation of the chord type which is currently selected in the Chord Types list.
The top right of the Chord Types list displays a label indicating how many chord types are active out of the total number. For example: (24/57 active).
Move Up
Move Down
You can alter the order of chord types within the Chord Types list. This is affect the order of the chord types as they are used throughout ChordWizard.
For example, it will affect the order of chord types within every chord matrix, of groups within the Library List, and of groups within all reports.
The Move Up and Move Down buttons will shift the order of the currently selected chord type in the ChordTypes list by one step. Press them repeatedly to keep a chord type moving through the list.
New
You can add any number of new custom chord types to the Chord Types list.
Pressing the New button opens the New Chord Type window, where you specify the details of your new chord type, including its name and degrees.
Custom chord types are marked in the Chord Types list with a small spot to the left of the chord type name.
| New chord types can be added only with ChordWizard Gold Edition. The Silver Edition operates only at Beginner level with the most common chord types. |
Edit
You may make changes to the definitions of both custom chord types and standard chord types, although there are some restrictions on what changes can be made to the latter.
Pressing the Edit button opens the Edit Chord Type window for the chord type currently selected in the Chord Types list.
There you can modify the details of the chord type, including its name and degrees.
Delete
You can remove a chord type from the Chord Types list by selecting it and pressing the Delete button.
Note that you can only delete custom chord types. If you want to remove of a standard chord type, you should deactivate it instead.
Play Chord Type
Plays the sound of the currently selected chord type in the Chord Types list.
Reset
Within the Library Options, the Reset button resets the whole Chord Types list back to the chord types that are defined in Default Options. You will first need to select the playing level to reset to, since there is a separate list of chord types for each playing level within Default Options.
Within the Default Options itself, the Reset button opens the Reset Chord Types window, which allows you to reset any of the aspects of the chord types list back to the system defaults.
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