These words have more than one syllable. Each syllable gets a note of its own: on the Pitch page the word stays whole on its notes, and on Notation and Rhythm it is written in syllables — wa - ter - mel - on. Tap a word to leave it whole.

• The lock beside Play: unlock it to edit, lock it again to perform. Every tool comes out in the Edit box — drag it by its title bar to any part of the screen, or fold it up with ⌃; it stays out until you lock it again. Tap a word — or double-click its note, here or on the Rhythm page (locked or not) — to type it; Space moves to the next word, ⌫ at the start goes back.
• ✎
  Write (unlocked): type or paste the words. Leave an empty line between the lines of the song — lines of text with no gap between them stay together in one line of music.
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  Words of more than one syllable get a note for each syllable. Write → Split into syllables lights every word it would split (wa-ter-mel-on); tap one to leave it whole (a dot: tap again for another way, like ev-er-y), then Split. Or type the hyphens yourself — wa-ter-mel-on in a word puts each syllable on a note; Space inside a word sends the rest of it to the next note. Pitch keeps the word whole on its notes; Notation and Rhythm write it in syllables, with the hyphen halfway between them.
• ♩
  Value circles write the selected block on the staff and step to the next one — so a phrase is one tap per note. Tap the lit circle again for a rest; the block circle turns a note back into a block. Dotted works before or after: on a block it lights and waits for the value you tap next. Tie makes the note go on for another eighth, tied — over the bar line when the note ends a bar; Tie again parts them and the held part goes quiet. Every value, Dotted, Tie and Rest here works the way the Rhythm page's circles do: the beats after the note stay where they are, and the words and notes pour through them. [ ] step the value.
• A
  Letter keys in Edit, with neither the chord panel nor the keyboard out (the Song tab), type pitches: A S D F G H J K = do re mi fa so la ti do′, Q W E R T Y = do′ … la′, Z X C = so, la, ti below, V = do. ↑ ↓ move a step.
• ×
  On the selected note, unlocked: the × at the top of its box deletes that note in one tap (a note on its own goes with its word; Undo brings it back), and the + on its right side adds a new note after it, on the same syllable, with no word — double-tap under it to give it one.
• ♯
  Note, in the Edit box: ♯ ♭ sharpen or flatten the selected note (tap again for natural); Harmony adds a note two steps above it, and − takes the selected one away.
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  Lines, in the Edit box: New line starts a line at this word, and Join up (on the first word of a line) joins the line to the one above. ⌫ removes the selected syllable — press it twice, so one stray press never loses work.
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  Pick-ups (Layout settings → 1-beat pick-up, saved with the song): every line starts with a one-beat pick-up. Unlocked, point at the bar line after a pick-up and press its ×: the bar line goes and the pick-up joins the first bar. Or select a line’s pick-up and Join up moves just that beat to the end of the line above — press it again to join the whole line. Delete on a pick-up takes it away and puts a rest in the bar above. A new line starts with its pick-up again.
• A
  Section names sit in the top corner of each line; type into them in Edit. ▲ ▼ move the line, ⧉ copies it below, × deletes it. Add a line, at the end of the song, starts a new one.
• I
  The Chords window (Chords tab): Chord Chart, under the panel, opens it. Along the top are the song’s chords — press one to hear it, drag it to move it, drag it away to take it off. Under them the song plays as a sound wave (▶, round and round): tap the wave to jump, drag across it to loop just those bars. The arrow at its right opens the whole of it — the sections, the chords under it, and Melody · Chords to switch a side off — and folds it again. Under the wave are every major and minor chord, round the circle of fifths in blocks — the key’s own at the top in the middle, majors outside, their minors inside; C · I in the middle names them by letter or by numeral, and Circle · Panel under it brings back the panel’s blocks. The Z X C V B buttons there stay on once pressed (press again to turn one off): every chord then plays with them, and a chord dragged up takes them onto the chart. Create Chord builds a new one note by note. While it plays, press any chord on the board (or its key) to hear it with the song; drag a chord up onto the chart, or tap a ? box and the chords you play next fill the boxes in turn; the round + opens another box. Time Line lays the song out in bars, its words over its chords: drag a chord on from the tray, drag a chord to move it (⌥ for a copy), stretch it by its grips, and Copy, Repeat or Delete it. Drag a section by its tab to move it a bar at a time (its chords go with it; past the middle of the next one they swap), or Copy, Repeat or Delete it; empty bars before or between sections are an Intro or Interlude — put chords in them, and they become a row of chords in the music. Your changes wait there until Apply; leave without applying and they stay as they are for when you come back (a dot on the tab). A double-click on a chord opens it on its own; closing it (×, Esc) takes you back to the Chord Chart or the Time Line, wherever you opened it from.
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  The chord track draws the chords over the words, and the bars after the melody as a chord chart. Tap a chord to hear it; in Edit, select it and press a chord key to change it, ⌫ to silence it, ← → to walk the chords. Double-click a chord for Just here: change that one bar — one chord or two, any rhythm — and the progression stays as it is. Play starts from a selected chord.
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  Change a chord: unlocked, the pencil on any chord opens its editor — root, quality, a 7th or an inversion stuck to it, its name — and Back to the scale’s chord undoes it. The pencil at the end of the Z X C V B row chooses what each button does (sus2 … maj7, or the inversions 6, 6/4, 6/5, 4/3, 4/2). Re-chorded places are saved with the song. Under the panel, the corner shows the chord in hand and its notes; the keyboard’s Octaves and Focus sit below them.
• ⛶
  Present hides every control and fills the screen. Play and the step arrows stay. Press Esc to come back.
• ␣
  Spacebar plays from the selected note, and stops — and the next Play carries on from where it stopped. Sound sets a count-in, a steady beat, and what happens at the end.