Guitar Fretboard Diagrams
Reading various forums I see that guitar fretboard diagrams are on the way which is really great. I was curious if anyone has addressed the issue having the ability to modify the diagrams. For example: If I want to indicate an inversion of a chord or use an unconventional fingering will the diagrams be modifiable or will they be standard garden variety chord shapes? What about ukulele diagrams with 4 strings?
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Using the Fretboard Diagram Properties, modifications are possible:
Increase/decrease the number of strings in the diagram
Increase/decrease the number of frets in the diagram
Use the slider to change position - eg. set the chord at the 5th fret
Click on a fret/string to place the dot
Open strings notated as 'O' --- muted strings, as 'X'
See the attached image.
If you have some familiarity with MuseScore 1.3, you may wish to test drive a nightly build of the unreleased version. See:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/comparison-stable-prerelease-and-night…
and
http://musescore.org/en/download#Nightly-versions
Regards.
In reply to Fretboard diagrams by Jm6stringer
Looks awesome and thanks for the reply..And yes I am familiar with 1.3. So you are also saying that this diagram can be used if I download the above link?
In reply to Looks awesome and thanks for by CARLD
yes, he says exactly that.
In reply to Looks awesome and thanks for by CARLD
But, keep in mind these nightly builds are still experimental and not meant for real work. No guarantees that any scores you create with such a build today can be opened by a later build.
In reply to But, keep in mind these by Marc Sabatella
That's what i thought.. I think I will wait...thanks for all the info
Ukulele 4 string diagrams.
Anyway to set the default diagram to 4 strings on ukulele template.
Right now I have to re set it to 4 from 6 every new diagram.
Also a way to save diagrams after they are created?
I know I can copy and paste diagrams but it would ne nice to have a working diagram palette from previously created diagrams. Hope that made sense.
cb
In reply to Ukulele 4 string by cb56
I never tried this myself (as I have no use for fretboard diagrams), but it should be possible to:
1) create in a score one or more diagrams to your liking
2) add to the main palette a custom palette (see the relevant handbook page ) to hold your user-specific symbols
3) [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Drag] the diagram(s) to the custom palette for future re-use.
Hi. This seems the best place to add my small feature request without starting a new thread.
About Scaling fretboard chord diagrams.
I frequently want to scale up chord diagrams quite large, like 2x bigger.
Unfortunately the 'O' symbol for open string, and 'X' symbol for muted string do not scale up with the rest of the diagram. Can the system be improved to scale up these symbols with the rest of the diagram?
Has anyone else needed this?
Is there a better place on the forum I should make this feature request?
In reply to Hi. This seems the best place by hamish dyson
Welcome, Hamish! I think you've actually identified a bug—those should have scaled all along. Could you report it at https://musescore.org/en/project/issues/musescore?
In reply to Welcome, Hamish! I think by Isaac Weiss
OK, I have created the new bug report. Thanks for your help!
In reply to OK, I have created the new by hamish dyson
You're welcome, and thank you for yours.
In reply to OK, I have created the new by hamish dyson
And it looks like #119381: Scaling of fretboard chord diagrams was fixed within hours. In the next version of MuseScore, fretboard diagrams will scale correctly. If you find any more issues, please let us know!
In reply to And it looks like #119381: by Isaac Weiss
Yes, I noticed that quick work. MuseScore development is very impressive lately. I'll definitely be looking to install v 2.0.4 the day it's out!