Chord Symbols doubled in linked staves

• Sep 27, 2021 - 22:07

A client wants to have the bass part for a song to have chord symbols as well as tablature. The bass part and tab has already been written, but when I went to add chord symbols, then went to look at the bass "part", I saw two chord symbols for each one I had written. Deleting one also deleted the other. What's going on?

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fretlessman71

• Sep 27, 2021 - 23:54

Here's the long version of how I got to that screen shot:

Created a new file from a saved custom template that included an Electric Bass instrument with a linked TAB staff
Created the music on all staves
Created separate parts, sent out PDFs to the musicians
Contacted after the fact, was asked to include chord symbols as well as the TAB for the bass chart
Using Command+K, typed in chord symbols to the bass clef staff in the score
Clicked on the Electric Bass "part", and found that the chord symbols appeared twice

A fellow MSer was able to see the doubled chord symbols when I sent him the file, but he was easily able to create a new instrument and copy the information over, and the chord symbols were back to being single, and sent me back the file, which worked on my computer.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 28, 2021 - 04:24

Select those you don't want to see and make them invisible

fretlessman71

• Sep 28, 2021 - 05:06

Certainly that's a thought, but it shouldn't be happening in the first place.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 28, 2021 - 08:15

Well, as linked staves are just 2 staves with identical content just (potentially) different interpretation (pitched vs tab), that much seems pretty much by design?
Well, maybe not, as I can't reproduce it. See also below...

Marc Sabatella

• Sep 28, 2021 - 06:10

Ah, I see, in the score it looks fine, but in the part the chord symbol appears twice. But I can't reproduce this in a score I created from scratch. I suspect the template you used might have something unusual going on with how the linked staves were set up.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 28, 2021 - 08:20