Eliminate bent-note “phantom fretting” on linked tabs
Attached diagram explains, but currently, a linked guitar tab requires a fretted note in the tab for each note in the standard staff. While Musescore has a symbol to denote a bent string, the linked tab will still show a note on a fret that is never fretted.
In the diagram, the 2nd note in the top half is an 'E' that's played by bending the 'D' (G string, 7th fret) up to 'E'. The linked tab shows 9th fret, G string even though that fret is never played.
The last 4 notes show the same thing... a single fretted note is bent up and down between D & E. It would be nice if the "bend" symbol could be stretched and placed where the bends occur. Thanks!
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How is this different fro https://musescore.org/en/node/305936 ?
In reply to How is this different fro… by Jojo-Schmitz
That post was an inquiry in the General Discussion forum to see if there was a way to do this that I didn't know about. When there were no responses over a couple of days, I assumed there wasn't and posted this in the Feature Request forum.
Why are you writing out the notes in full instead of just the bend itself?
Then you can edit the bend to your liking, each click adding a box adds 1sp length to the bend, just as mentioned in the handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/bends
In reply to Why are you writing out the… by jeetee
Thanks for the tip on adding length... I missed that in the manual.
But the standard staff should include any note that is heard. Tabs should show what's fingered. Here are examples of how I've always seen it done:
https://steinberg.help/dorico_pro/v3/en/dorico/topics/notation_referenc…
https://www.guitarinstructor.com/pdf/TabNotationLegend.pdf
https://acousticguitar.com/acoustic-guitar-notation-guide/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeiEizsons
https://www.dummies.com/art-center/music/guitar/how-guitar-string-bends…