Here is how to add... Guitar Chord Symbols (fretboard fingering)
Maybe someone else has suggested this as a workaround but here it is....
After you create your leadsheet with MuseScore save it as a graphic file... a jpg, gif, or whatever format you like.
Then open it up in PC Paint or some other bit-map editor, draw your chords, then copy and paste them above the staff as needed.
Here you go step by step...
Create your guitar chord symbols:
- opening a new PC Paint file
- Draw the guitar fretboard grid. (3 or 4 frets)
- Draw a circle and fille it with black
- Copy & paste the blank fretboard to the right of the master fretboard diagram
- Copy & paste the black circles onto the fretboard as required to make your chord
- repeat this process until you have all your standard chords made up
- save the file as Guitar Chords.jpg or whatever
Add the Guitar Chord Symbols to your Lead Sheet:
- Leave the Guitar Chords file open
- Open another instance of PC Paint
- Open the graphic file of the MuseScore lead sheet
- Switch back to the guitar chords file, copy the desired chord
- Switch back to the Lead Sheet and paste the chord in the proper place
- Repeat the process till done
- Save Lead Sheet file
- Convert it to a PDF if you wish or just leave it as a graphic file
- This shounds like a lot of work but once you have your chords made up you can use them over and over in other arrangements.
- The copying and pasting should go faster after you've done a few.
- Remember Alt-Tab will quickly switch you back and forth between the Chord Symbol File and the Lead Sheef Tild.
- This has the additional advantage of giving you total control of the chord fingering.
Hope this helps some of you who want this feature.
Comments
Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting work around Mel. In the meantime, we shall keep on trying to attract a developer who can implement frets and tab staffs in MuseScore.
This way seems don't work on Mac, what to do to insert a bitmap from a Mac version?