Instruction Manual

Notation and Lyrics
This section 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.
See:
The Staff View
Basic Musical Editing
Chords and Marks
Tablature
Working with Percussion
Printing
The Meter/Key View
Working with Lyrics
The Staff View
The Staff view is composed of a Staff pane and a Fretboard.
When you first open the Staff view, you may see only the Staff and not the Fretboard.
Resize the Staff view by dragging its edges until you can see everything easily. When you