Dead notes on a guitar score
Hi, Many guitar scores feature dead notes (often shown as 'x') - obtained by lightly resting your left hand across the strings without actually pressing the strings against the fret. Only the guitar sting notes (EBGDAE for standard tuning) would be available as dead notes.
Is it possible to create such notes in the score of say an electric guitar in MuseScore? In other words if I were to place one of these notes in a guitar score, could I make it 'dead'?
Thanks
Henry
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Add a staff text, right click on it ->staff text properties... and select the channel "mute" for it?
And change the notehead to a cross (to visually mark them dead)
In reply to And change the notehead to a… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you both, but you have to 'un - dead' subsequent notes in the stave by selecting the voice in the stave and then 'OK' otherwise all the subsequent notes will be 'dead'
In reply to Thank you both, but you… by henry coppens
yes, indeed
In reply to yes, indeed by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi,
Regarding setting an instrument note in 'Staff Text Properties' I follow the procedure you suggest to 'mute' the note. This works most of the time. But I have some scores (attached) that this does not work - only the 'normal' setting is allowed. See measure 10 for the El Guit - second chord, the one with a little 'x'
Thanks,
Henry
In reply to Hi, Regarding setting an… by henry coppens
This score was created in 2011. Back then guitars apparently only had a single sound channel. To update to a more recent guitar right click the guitar staff, choose staff/part properties then click the "Change Instruments"Button above the long instrument name. Select the Electric Guitar and the instrument will be updated to the instrument in your current version.
In reply to This score was created in… by mike320
Thanks, Mike. What I have done is simply add a new guitar score to the sheet and copy the notes from the old to the new and then delete the old guitar
Since you have to click on the note then enter Inspector anyway to set the notehead as a cross, set the note Velocity to 0 or very low value ' this only affects the note you are working on. If you have a lot of such notes you can select several at a time and do the changes.
Hi Henry,
Thanks for your post. I've been wondering the same thing about muted guitar notes.
When I set an X notehead I'd want MuseScore to automatically sound the note with a quiet, largely pitchless "muted thump"—like Guitar Pro does—with no channel or velocity tweaks required.
A muted "thump" would be far better than manually choosing a lower velocity value, because note played at low (or no) velocity wouldn't convey the impression of a guitar "left hand" muted note.
scorster
In reply to Hi Henry, Thanks for your… by scorster
> When I set an X notehead I'd want MuseScore to automatically sound the note with a quiet, largely pitchless "muted thump"—like Guitar Pro does—with no channel or velocity tweaks required.
> A muted "thump" would be far better than manually choosing a lower velocity value, because note played at low (or no) velocity wouldn't convey the impression of a guitar "left hand" muted note.
Agreed. And for example, GuitarPro 7 does a really good job at rendering muted notes.
In reply to > When I set an X notehead I… by scorster
Did you just agree to your own comment?
In reply to Did you just agree to your… by Dissonant Harmony
How so?
In reply to How so? by scorster
>How so?
On Nov. 5, you quoted and replied to a Sept. 6 post that was authored by you; so when you agreed, you agreed with yourself.
As a comparison....
See my other comment where I quoted and replied to Dissonant Harmony's post (and agreed).
(No big deal - just a comment on semantics.)
;-)
In reply to Did you just agree to your… by Dissonant Harmony
>Did you just agree to your own comment?
I agree with your question, and was wondering the same.
;-)