Documentation of recognized chords

• Dec 15, 2012 - 09:19

Hello,

Where can I found a documentation of recognized chords. I try to enter a C7sus4 chord, but it is not recognized.
Thanks.

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• Dec 15, 2012 - 11:07

Make sure to select the same chord style xml file as the one you are using in your scores. Or create a list for every chord style, see which suits your needs best and then use that for your scores

Could that plugin get extended to also show the chord as a real chord (of notes)?
Would also help in hearing what a certain chord sounds like

And I just (believe to have) found that this plugnin does not show the chords 240 (sus # 4) and 241 (Maj 7 b 13)

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• Dec 15, 2012 - 16:26

Ay yes, I think I added those chords at 1.2 but didn't update the plugin. Another downside to MuseScore's approach of trying to exhaustively list all possible chords. Could you file this against the plugin, and when the dust settles on the chord symbol system and plugin framework for 2.0, I'll take a look?

Meanwhile, people interested in the subject might want to to take a look at this:

http://musescore.org/en/node/18859

No idea if there is any hope of getting any of this in for 2.0, but it does seem like the situation will be improving at some point in the not too distsant future.

BTW, regarding sus4 - some of the styles use "sus4", others use simply "sus". If you find a chord name style you like in other respects but wish it used "sus4" instead of just "sus", you can edit the XML file - a one line change should do the trick. See Chord name in the Handbook for more on chord name styles.

But again, hopefully in the future this will all be easier.

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• Dec 15, 2012 - 16:50

It is easy enough to fix for 1.2 from a purely technical perspective, but this plugin is not currently even in the repository - it's shipped with MuseScore. And of course, there are no plans to release anything else on the 1.X branch. So unless we added this to plugin repository and then asked people to update from there, no one would ever see the fix. Oh well, it's not like anyone but the one person who requested those chords is likely to miss them :-)

For 2.0, I have some hope that we'd have access to enough data structures to not need the exhaustive list of chord id's - there might be a way to find out what chord id's are actually defined. But yeah, first I guess there needs to be a way to access the chord description files at all.

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