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 Edit box: the orange circle at the left edge opens it and closes it again. Every tool is in it, and along its top Edit · Chords switch between the tools and the chord panel, and Piano puts the keyboard under the music (it stays when the box closes). Under the circle, the smaller one is the lock, off to start (Options has it too): unlocked, the song changes whether the box is open or not; locked, nothing on the music changes until you open the box — click about safely. Locked, the box’s Edit tab changes the notes and its Chords tab changes only the chords — try chords against a melody that stays exactly where it is (Undo there only takes back chord changes). On the Rhythm page the circles are away while the notes are locked. The Chords window (double-click a chord) changes chords whatever the lock, and the Piano always plays. Undo and Redo sit under the lock. Tap a word — or double-click its note, here or on the Rhythm page — to type it; Space moves to the next word, ⌫ at the start goes back.
• ✎
  Lyrics, at the top of the Edit box: 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.
• -
  Words of more than one syllable get a note for each syllable. Lyrics → 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; Rest on a block turns it grey. 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, whenever the song can change: 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 — then a coloured circle stands for each note: tap one to pick it, + adds another, and − takes the picked one away. On the Pitch page, Rest turns the selected block grey (tap again for the note).
• ↵
  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.
• ♪
  Pick-ups (Layout settings → 1-beat pick-up, saved with the song): every line starts with a one-beat pick-up. While the song can change, 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 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 it are the song’s chords — tap one to hear it (hold it down to hear its rhythm), drag it to move it, drag it away to take it off. Each has round buttons: the one in its upper left corner opens its notes; the small one beside it glows gold when on — that chord then stands beside whichever chord you open, to compare them and smooth the way from one to the next (Save All, or Let me Decide to choose Save or Save as New for each). The ♪ at its bottom opens its Rhythm: for This Chord or All Chords, block chords (held, or a pre-built rhythm), arpeggios (its notes one by one — up, down, middle out, Alberti, random …) or Build Your Own (Rhythm Poetry’s circles, or the notes in the order you tap them). Every place the chord is in the song plays it. Under them 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.
• I
  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; the Edit box’s Chords tab is where they change (in Edit they only show; locked, the notes stay put there): select one 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.
• ✎
  Change a chord: while the song can change, 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. 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.
• ♯
  Changing key — Look → When the key is changed. Transpose (to start): a key from Setup moves the music you are in, every note keeping its solfège; in a song that changes key, only the stretch the selected note is in (with nothing selected, the whole song). Create Key Change: the new key starts on the first beat of the bar the selected note is in — and stays with that note: if a rhythm change moves it, the key change moves to the start of its new bar, and any notes that cross the bar line are written in the key they land in (with ♯ ♭ as needed) so they sound as before. Everything after it is written in that key — if notes are already written there, choose Transpose (they move into the new key) or Remain unchanged (they keep their pitches, written in the new key — the chords there too). The staff writes the new key signature; the blocks show a flag with the key's name. In this mode notes can go from A♭2 to G6 in any key; the letter keys still follow the key you are in.
• ␣
  Spacebar plays from the selected note, and stops — and the next Play carries on from where it stopped. Setup (the button that shows the key and the tempo) sets the key, the time signature, the scale, the tempo, the swing (None, 8th or 16th — the notes stay written straight) and the count-in; Sound (the speaker and eye button, with Look) a steady beat, the sounds, and what happens at the end.