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Thread: Enharmonic Transposition, Flats vs. Sharps, slash chords

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    Default Enharmonic Transposition, Flats vs. Sharps, slash chords

    When transposing a song, there are instances where a chord such as E/G# is displayed E/Ab. When using slash chords, it would make more sense to use either sharps of flats for both lower and upper part of the chord, and not mixing them

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    Last edited by pdxdjazz; 09-09-2018 at 12:53 PM.

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    After reading those threads, unless I missed something, I haven't seen anything regarding the particular issue of mix flat/sharp in slash chords. All those threads are not related with this issue

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    Thank you Cyrille, we are aware of this.

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    Yes, I'd rather see Eb/Bb than D#/Bb

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    Hi,

    This may happen as well when there is a tritone sub of V. For instance in Autumn Leaves "G-7 Gb7" for a non transposing instrument becomes "E-7 D#7" for a Eb instrument. As tritone substitutions of V are quite common, it would be nice if they appear differently for a transposing instrument ("E-7 Eb7" on the above example).

    Best,

    Lucas

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