Using '.' after chord letter to force playback of bass only: is this a good long term workaround?
For diatonic accordion scores I need to notate playing left hand bass by upper case chord letter (C G ..), and playing chord by lower case (c, g, ...).
It doesn't matter that it is for diatonic accordion, I give that info only to show that it isn't a crazy idea of me, just a common notation for that instrument.
Anyway, using uppercase and lowercase is allowed in style by unchecking Automatic Capitalization for chords.
Before the chord playback area that did the job.
Now with playback of chords (and without looking for audio perfection, that's not my goal), I would of course prefer to have bass only for uppercase chords.
As it happens I have found a quite usable workaround: just add a dot after the chord letter, it seems that MuseScore doesn't recognize the Chord realization and therefore plays the bass only with is just perfect for me.
My question is: is this a good long term workaround or will soon MuseScore change the way to play G. C. ... ?
P.S. attached a very simple example
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Rather than resorting to a hack that indeed might or might not work out in the future, simply select your chord symbols and set the playback voicing interpretation setting to "root only": https://musescore.org/en/handbook/playback-chord-symbols-nashville-numb…
In reply to Rather than resorting to a… by jeetee
Oh much better indeed, thanks.
'' All voicings include a bass note, 2 octaves below the root note of the chord. ''
Is there a (future) setting to change that? I'd like to have some chords played without the bass note
In reply to Oh much better indeed,… by frfancha
Not that I'm aware of.
Feel free to enter it into the issue tracker with a severity of "S5 - Suggestion".
In reply to Oh much better indeed,… by frfancha
Actually the Voicing: Close setting should do that, it should keep everything within one octave, but still ads that bass 2 octaves below. I'd call that a bug...
But this isn't about the Root Only option, so a different issue I guess
In reply to Actually the Voicing: Close… by Jojo-Schmitz
It's not a bug, that's the design. Close voicing refers to what happens on top, not what happens in the bass. But a checkbox to toggle the bass makes sense to me.
In reply to It's not a bug, that's the… by Marc Sabatella
Might be by design, but still wrong ;-)
The root noted to me is the one in the upper chord, not its duplication in the lower octave, in both cases, "Root Only" and "Close". It is OK in all others I guess.
In reply to Still the root noted to me… by Jojo-Schmitz
https://musescore.org/en/node/314020
In reply to 314020 by frfancha
Thanks for #314020: Chord symbol playback: add a checkbox to toggle the bass ON/OFF
In reply to Still the root noted to me… by Jojo-Schmitz
No, this is the textbook definition of close voicing, and also what virtually all real world applications would require. Whether or not you include a bass note has nothing at all to do with whether the voicing itself is close or not.
So, close voicing with bass note is C-E-G near middle C, plus C an octave or two below. Close voicing without bass note is C-E-G near middle C, without the lower C.
An open voicing (like drop 2) would spread that C-E-G wider, like maybe E3-C4-G4, but this too could be done without or without added bass note.