Tie and slur direction in tablature

• Oct 8, 2013 - 01:52
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
active
Project
MuseScore

1. Open attached score (produced in 2.0).

Result: A test suite proposing a new default direction of ties and slurs in tablature - based on my observation of several books that utilise both full staff type and multi-voice.

There seems to be different conventions for grace notes (it wasn't possible to cover them in the mscz, due to bugs):

Grace note before note: Downward
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before note).png

Grace note after note: Upward
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note after note).png

Multi-voice grace notes after notes: Upward for upper notes and downward for lower (I assume the same for multi-voice grace notes before notes)
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Multi-voice grace notes after notes).png

Grace notes before and after note: Uncertain (two books show different things)
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before and after note 1).png
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before and after note 2).png

Note: As the score was created in a development version and manually adjusted, I would recommend creating another to test its implementation.

Discussion: Although tablature has limited conventions, I think this system could serve users better. Does anyone have an opinion, however?

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (689147c) - Mac 10.7.5.

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Tie and slur direction in tablature.mscz 2.88 KB
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before note).png 45.23 KB
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note after note).png 39.03 KB
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before and after note 1).png 36.51 KB
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before and after note 2).png 26.09 KB
Tie and slur direction in tablature (Multi-voice grace notes after notes).png 25.85 KB

Comments

• Oct 8, 2013 - 14:57

Once so far (compared to the other), I saw another kind of 'Grace note before note' in the same score, in which the slur was upward (unlike the others, I couldn't see a glissando in the counterpart pitched stave, but might not be this - I saw others without glissando and those were downward):

Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before note 2).png

Maybe it was an operating mistake?

Regarding 'Grace notes before and after note 2', I've seen this only once so far in comparison to the other - maybe a different software version, different operator or mistake?

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Tie and slur direction in tablature (Grace note before note 2).png 30.08 KB

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• Oct 8, 2013 - 16:52

Regarding the slur direction in multi-voice, the exception could be if there's nothing that will visually collide, as seen here in the last beat of Guitar 3.

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