Chord symbols
When I am writing a chord, eg Eb with a G bass, I write G/Eb.
Is there a way of having a smaller font for the bass note?
There has to be a way because it has happened to me once and I don't know how I did it!
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Interesting. I learned it the other way around. Anyway you can double click the thing you want to make smaller. A dialogue opens at the bottom of the screen and there you can adjust the size. There might be a universal way. I don't know.
Just FYI, literally every musician in the world will play that chord in the opposite way of what you want them to. :)
You wrote:
When I am writing a chord, eg Eb with a G bass, I write G/Eb.
Normally, the root should be first, then the bass So, an E♭ chord with a G bass would be:
![E_flat.png]( "E_flat.png")
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Is there a way of having a smaller font for the bass note?
You want a smaller font for only the G bass note?
There has to be a way because it has happened to me once and I don't know how I did it!
![E_flat_g.png]( "E_flat_g.png")
You can make the bass notes lower case In Format > Style > Chord Symbols.
Is that what you mean?
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/chord-symbols#note-spelling
In reply to You wrote: When I am writing… by Jm6stringer
I think he means a smaller capital G. I misspoke earlier. Not unusual. You can create the chord symbol Eb/. Then create a staff text G in a smaller font. Then drag the G next to the Eb. The inversion won't play, of course.
It's not standard to put the bass note in a smaller font - I don't know of any publisher that does this. But if you do have some special reason to need this (like working for a publisher who requires this as part their own "house style"), you can create a custom "chord description file" and tell MuseScore to use it in Format / Style / Chord Symbols. It's an advanced technique and not really documented, except in the comments within the default chord description files that come with MuseScore.