Slur from a note/chord to a rest should be hoizontal

• May 31, 2022 - 11:33
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

In order to describe more precisely a "laissez-vibrer" or a "let ring" a common notation is to tie the note to a rest. It is more explicit to what is expected from the player.
laissez vibrer.png
In MuseScore, this implies using multiple voices, hiding the tied note, ...

It would be nice if a chord could be tied to rest without having to do all those manipulations.

Some discussions about this:
* https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/123084/how-can-i-create-a-tie…
* https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/69970/when-to-use-tied-notes-…

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• May 31, 2022 - 12:00
Status active ⇒ needs info
Workaround No ⇒ Yes

Use a 'Let ring" line (from the Lines palette of the Advanced workspace) instead

Then again a simple slur works too:
lv_1.png

A tie indeed does not though, but that's a different thing anyway.

Maybe you could feed that back to those stackexchange discussions.

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• May 31, 2022 - 18:08

The issues with using slurs to a rest are 1) slurs will not be perfectly horizontal in every case whereas ties will, and 2) adding slurs to each note of a chord and positioning them correctly to look like that hanging tie is frankly a total pain. I've also seen this kind of notation in piano music quite a lot.

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• Jun 1, 2022 - 10:16

> Slur to rest works
~~> Slur to rest is perfectible
As per dragonwithafez remark, in this case the slur is not really well positioned. And this is a per part layout, it means that one have to adapt the layout on every part. Not ideal.
Example:
slurToRestExample.png

The ideal would be a slur to rest to be automatically laid out horizontally:
slurToRestIdeal.png

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• Jun 1, 2022 - 10:19
Title Add a slur to a rest ⇒ Slur from a note/chord to a rest should be hoizontal
Frequency Once ⇒ Few
Status by design ⇒ active

OK, I buy that ;-)

Workaround is to adjust it manually

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