Allow playback of "7/6" chord symbols
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.2.548021803, revision: 3224f34
Currently 7/6 chord symbols (e.g. C7/6 = C E G A Bb, etc.) are played back as major chords only. Could playback for this symbol be added?
Comments
C7/6 (although some use it as a shortcut) is a meaningless spelling.
It's possible to use it as follows:
C7(add13)
Cm7(add13)
If you want to use 6, you can try the following:
C7(add6)
Cm7(add6)
If you don't care about the rules, this also works:
C7(6)
Cm7(6)
C7/6 is not any sort of standard chord at all. C13 would be the standard, or if you really wanted to encourage people not to include a ninth, C7add6 or C7(13).
But probably someday we should extend the parser to ignore the "/" - or treat it as just a separator, like parentheses - if what follows isn't a note. Then people could type all sorts of non-standard combinations like C7/sus4.
Meanwhile, my standard advice is, enter a chord a more standard way if you want people to understand, but if you have a special reason to need a non-standard display, enter it that way for notation but disable playback, then a second correctly notated chord for playback but marked invisible.