Grouping is the process of arranging chordshapes in the Library List into groups by their matching chords.
This keeps chordshapes together which sound similar, and makes navigating the Library List more useful. For example, all chordshapes with an Cmaj matching chord appear together in the Cmaj group.
With grouping active, a chordshape with several matching chords appears in the list at several places, once in each group for which it has a matching chord. If there are any chordshapes in the library which have no matching chords, these will appear in an empty group at the end of the list.
All of the settings which adjust grouping in the Library List are found in the Indexing page of Library Options.
Grouping is also a major feature when printing all types of reports, where you can either use the library grouping settings, or override them for a particular report, using the Groups page of Printing Options.
Root Notes within Chord Types
With this grouping method, groups are arranged in order with groups of the same chord type appearing next to each other, and adjacent groups being a sequence of changing root notes. For example:
Cmaj
C#maj
Dmaj
:
Cm
C#m
Dm
:
Cdim
C#bdim
Ddim
:
etc
Chord Types within Root Notes
With this grouping method, groups are arranged in order with groups of the same root note appearing next to each other, and adjacent groups being a sequence of changing chord types. For example:
Cmaj
Cm
Cdim
:
C#maj
C#m
C#dim
:
Dmaj
Dm
Ddim
:
etc
Sort Within Groups
Within each group you have two choices for how chordshapes are sorted. If you wish, you can just use the default sort order.
Usually more convenient, though, is to use the Closest Matches First option. This places chordshapes with a more exact matching chord further towards the top of the group, and makes it easier to identify at a glance the best choices of chordshape available for a chord.
For chordshapes with matching chords of the same exactness, the default sort order is still used.
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