Reference Guide

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” on page 1000
“Basic musical editing” on page 1006
“Chords and marks” on page 1018
“Tablature” on page 1025
“Working with percussion” on page 1030
“Printing” on page 1034
“The Meter/Key view” on page 1035
“Working with lyrics” on page 1040