CAKEWALK SONAR - Working with Notation and Lyrics

Working with Notation
and Lyrics
This chapter describes three SONAR™ views that are used to edit the music
notation and lyrics of your project.
• SONAR’s Staff view lets you work with your composition in a standard
musical staff, guitar tablature and a virtual guitar fretboard. You can add,
move, and delete notes with your mouse or with your computer keyboard. You
can add chord names, guitar chord grids, expression marks, hairpin symbols,
pedal marks, and lyrics. And you can print professional-quality notation of a
complete arrangement or individual parts, with up to 24 staves per page.
• The Meter/Key view lets you view, insert, and edit meter and key changes at
any measure boundary in the project.
• The Lyrics view lets you edit a track’s lyrics, and can be used to cue you with
the lyrics during playback or recording.
In This Chapter
The Staff View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Basic Musical Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Chords and Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Tablature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
The Meter/Key View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Working with Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
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