Circled fret marks for half note and whole note durations in tablature staves

• Aug 12, 2018 - 11:37
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

In some published tablature scores, half notes and whole notes are indicated by encircling those frets marks. Sibelius and Finale have no such option, but Notion and Scoremaker ZERO do. Attached is an example from Alfred music publishing.

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See discussion here: https://musescore.org/en/node/167401


Comments

Is this solved yet? As commented, the confusion with tremelo is annoying. A specially for a new bee guitarplayer en score reader like me ;-)

I’m finding this to be an issue with the full tab setting too. I’ve never seen that type of notation for a half note in any published tab. IMO makes it unusable for teaching because of it creates confusion for the reader.