Hyphen instead of chord symbol when the same chord is repeated with different bass notes using slashes
Apologies in advance if this question has already been asked. I searched to the best of my ability, but
I'm working on a chord chart for a fellow piano player (please see attachments):
I'd prefer if it was possible to write the chord symbols as follows, as it would make the chart considerably more legible:
| G5 -/Bb -/C | G5/F -/A -/Bb | et cetera
I've tried writing with slashes anyway, but in that case the bass note symbols are not interpreted by Musescore and therefore not rendered correctly (note the difference for b-flat)
Ideally, the bass note symbols should use a smaller font, but even without legibility would be improved.
Is this possibly in musescore 4.5.1 or is it in the pipeline, perhaps?
I'm also wondering if there is a way to move the chord symbols horizontally, so the center - instead of the beginning - of each lines up with the note it's attached to? Selecting all chord symbols, using the filter and dragging with mouse only partly works, because shorter symbols gets shifted too far left.
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Comments
This is not possible, if you're after playback (else it is, just enter e.g. -/Bb)
For Playback you'd need to additionally add the 'real' chord and make it invisble
But see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/24528
Centering chord symbols is possible and easy: Format > Style > Text styles > Chord symbols > Align > Center
In reply to This is not possible, if you… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks a lot for answering. Much appreciated!
I'm not after playback - so this i workable. Thanks, again!
In reply to This is not possible, if you… by Jojo-Schmitz
As OP mentions, we don't seem to get a proper flat or sharp symbol when using e.g. -/Bb. Even if I enter the flat and/or sharp through the special characters palette, it changes back to a 'b' or '#', respectively. Is this a regression? (Musescore 4.5.1 on MacOS).
In reply to As OP mentions, we don't… by niklasj
Not a regression (same in 3.6.2), it is not recognized as a chord symbol, so the chord symbol parser doesn't replace the b with a flat
It work without the - though, then the flat doesn't get changed back to a b resp. the b changes to a flat
And it gets put a bit deeper