Add more styles for bent notes

• Feb 23, 2012 - 02:26
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

I've attached a diagram featuring instructions (credit: International Music Publications).

Also see Wikipedia .

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• Feb 23, 2012 - 09:16

I'm not a guitarist but I never saw bent notes represented like this. Chen Lung, I know you are referring to one specific score, from one specific band and publisher. Is there any guitarist that can give more info about the most common notation for bend ?

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• Mar 21, 2012 - 21:00
Status (old) needs info ⇒ active

I've never seen bends notated this way either.

The one's I am used to seeing are as they are represented in the Rockschool books. very often they're only displayed on the TAB line, but there's no reason why they shouldn't be displayed in notation

You can find these on this webpage http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-guitar-string-bends-are-notat…

The amount of bend is indicated above the symbol either as a fraction or integer, representing the amount in tones the bend should have.

It would be very helpful to have these added to the appropriate palette.

There are also other ways of notating them, but they all involve curved lines of one sort or another:-

http://www.accessrock.com/ReferenceLessons/guitarnotation2.asp
http://www.frankgambale.com/guitar_notation_legend.pdf
http://www.acousticguitar.com/lessons/notation/notation.shtml

are some of the ways.

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