Natural Guitar Harmonics in tab
Natural harmonics on the guitar are, aside from the ones located at the twelfth fret, located in a different fret from where the same note would be played normally. Is there a way in Musescore to insert a note, flag it as a harmonic and subsequently change the fret number in the guitar tab? I've added an image as an example. The harmonics in the second and third measures are located at the 7th fret and this is reflected in the tab, but the notes sounded are marked in the standard notation.
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Comments
What you could do is enter the desired tab, then on the standard staff, use the "Fix to line" option in the Inspector to make it appear wherever you choose. Basically, the other way around from what you propose, but same end result.
In reply to What you could do is enter by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the tip - I didn't think of doing it the other way around!
In reply to Thanks for the tip - I didn't by brettvachon
If you use unlinked staff/tab instead of linked, you can edit the two staves independently.
In reply to If you use unlinked staff/tab by geetar
That's true, but I find for longer works it's a pain to a) copy paste everything into the unlinked staff and b) make corrections in both staves.
I would prefer a solution that works with a linked staff because these harmonics last only for one measure in my example.
In reply to What you could do is enter by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. Almost two years later, this workaround also works for me. :)
I wonder, has there been any progress on this? I mean, I think there should eventually be a way to notate harmonics without a workaround. Do you think it makes sense to create an issue?
In reply to Thanks. Almost two years… by kontrafuss
I would be surprised if there is no feature request already. Feel free to look for one and create one if it does not already exist.
In reply to I would be surprised if… by mike320
I could not find one, so I've created it: Allow manual fret number spec for natural and artificial harmonics in tabulature.
I'm not sure if there's a way to write artifical harmonics in notation and/or tab. Neither am I aware of the most commonly used notation conventions for those.