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sus4
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Post by sus4 » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:09 pm

How do I properly notate a cmi with a major 7th? I thought it was this: cmi+7, but it's showing up a red on the score instead of black. The notes are C, Eflat, G, B.


MikeLyons
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Post by MikeLyons » Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:47 am

Much will depend on your version and/or tier of Sibelius. Cm7 is c,eb,g,Bb. if you type exactly cm7 in chord symbol text that is what you should get.

c eb g b is cm(maj7), which is what Sibelius uses when you use text-->Chord Symbols-->Add from notes. (On the text tab of the ribbon from Sib 7.x). Using + indicates an augmented chord.

If your version of sib allows it, you can change your chord symbol entry to Legacy, which will pretty much allow you to write what you want. However wrong it may be. (File-->Preferences-->Other-->Chord symbols)
Last edited by MikeLyons on Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by sus4 » Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:22 pm

I'm also getting Am( ▵ ). The triangle usually means a major seventh chord or note in this case. I must have changed maj.7 to the triangle in Engraving Rules at some point. This works for me. The version of Sibelius I have is 15.0. Thanks for your reply.

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Post by MikeLyons » Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:21 pm

sus4 wrote:
Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:22 pm
The version of Sibelius I have is 15.0. Thanks for your reply.
Are you from the future? Sibelius went to version 8, then started using 2019.x, 2020.x and 2021.x. there has never been a 15.
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Post by sus4 » Sat Oct 09, 2021 4:29 pm

Don't know where I got that number from. I'm using version 8.4.2.

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Post by MikeLyons » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:45 pm

Just a further thought - are you using a Mac? If so, are you on Big Sur or later? Sib 8.2 will NOT work properly on Big Sur. Particularly text or video objects will not behave properly.
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Post by Colin » Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:38 am

Cm(maj7)
is a chord name for C, E♭, G, B

Just type Cmmaj7 and Sibelius should add the brackets and small text for the 'maj7' suffix.

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Post by MikeLyons » Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:33 am

Indeed it will - providing you aren't using legacy chord input.
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