You can add chords to the chords staff quickly by simply touching a beat marker with your finger (the light grey markers hanging down from the chord staff centre line). Of course, this is most useful for quickly writing lead sheets, where you may have a single vocal staff containing the melody and lyrics, and the chords as a separate staff.
The Chord Staff allows you to quickly enter chords, without requiring an instrument within the score, and will print as a standard format chord chart in the parts, or on the Reader. The Chord Staff is found in the "Utility" category of the Staffs control, and can be useful in a variety of situations. The Chord Staff is a powerful feature of StaffPad. If you have a part that's interfering with the analysis of the Chord Staff (for example, a very chromatic part, or deliberately dissonant section, you can choose to exclude the instrument from the analysis by toggling the " Exclude from Chords" switch. This is most helpful when you have written out a piano part or guitar part already and just want the chords to show a representation of the notation on that staff.
If you change the notes within a written chord, you'll see the chord symbol change and update accordingly. StaffPad is constantly analysing the harmonic structure of your score, and will write the chord symbols for you, based on the content of the staff. If you have existing music on the staff, for example in a piano staff or a guitar staff, but you'd also like to show chord symbols, rather than type them out manually, you can toggle the " Show Chords" option found within the instrument's Edit Staff dialog. You can quickly write multiple chords by using the space bar key after you've typed your chord to advance to the next note.
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