Chord Symbols for Major 7, Half-diminished and diminished chords ?
I am using Musescore 3.2.3.7635 under Win10. When I used Musescore 2 chord symbols would show the Major 7th chord as a triangle, the m7-5 aka. half diminished chord as a circle with 45d line through and diminished as circle. Musescore 3 no longer does this. In Format=>Style=>Score I have MuseJazz and MuseJazz text as defaults as I did previously.
I tried a work around: after Alt-K to enter a chord symbol I hit F2 and "special characters" comes up. There is a half-diminished circle/line but I am not able to click on it nor drag it after the chord symbol.
There is no Major 7th triangle in the "special characters" menu.
A related question is the chords symbols now show a plain text such as Verdana and previously showed a more scripted Jazz version. How can I get that back? Alternately I am unable to universally change the chord symbols to a larger font; seems to be lock on Verdana 10pt.
I really appreciate the help. A complex and wonderful program. Best regards.
How might I get these functions back?
Comments
Why using the utterly outdated 3.2.3 rather than the last 3.6.2?
In reply to Why using the utterly… by Jojo-Schmitz
Religious aversion? Bad joke as I just didn't bother to upgrade and will. Thanks!
In reply to Religious aversion? Bad… by r_schiller@com…
;-)
Are you entering the chord symbols as per https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/chord-symbols#chord-symbol-syntax?
In reply to Are you entering the chord… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was able to correct some of my style issues and you hit it spot on with "t" and "o" for the symbols I need.
Thank you!
How do I universally change the alt/t text size for staff notations?
In reply to I was able to correct some… by r_schiller@com…
If you mean Ctrl+t rather than Alt+t: Format > Style > Text styles > Staff text > Size
Or change one of them in Inspector, then hit the S(et as style) button there
The t and o stuff was the same back in MuseScore 2, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/2/chord-symbols#chord-symbol-syntax
In reply to Format > Style > Text styles… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, Cntrl-t and you're spot on and I was able to correct the styles, thank you. And yes I forgot that I had used t and o in Musescore 2.
I screwed up and was trying to separate the instrument voices and inadvertently added a third staff (see attached). How do I delete that? Too late right now so I have no more weak jokes and appreciate your help.
In reply to Yes, Cntrl-t and you're spot… by r_schiller@com…
Press i and in that dialog delete the staff
In reply to Press i and in that dialog… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes! Thank you.
And I would use that menu if I wish to have a separate instrument voice for treble and bass clef? I can't seem to accomplish that.
In reply to Yes! Thank you. And I would… by r_schiller@com…
If you want two stves that are different instrument, use Edit / Instrument to make sure you have two instruments of one staff each, not one instrument of two staves. That's for existing scorews; for new choose, just choose the instruments that way to begin with rather than starting from piano or another two-staff single instrument.