Guitar Chord Frame Diagrams
Excellent work on this so far guys.
A nice intuitive editing window.
There are two omissions however.
1. There doesn't seem to be a way to enter the name of the chord above the diagram unless of course I've missed something!
2. There is no way to enter a Barre which is usually represented by a thick horizontal line across all strings, again, uunless I've missed something.
Looking good though!
Comments
How did you get to the window? I tried to add a fret diagram via the Create menu but got what appeared to be an ordinary vertical frame (eg, it broke the system there and insert a box the width of the page).
In reply to How did you get to the by Marc Sabatella
It's on the symbols palette.
Incidentally if you try to add a fret diagram to that frame it crashes MuseScore r5228
Dragging a fret diagram to a stave works however
In reply to It's on the symbols by ChurchOrganist
If you encounter a crash, don't hesitate to report it in the issue tracker with the exact steps to reproduce it.
Excellent work, I've been waiting for this for a log time, thanks. Fret diagrams can be dragged easily from the symbols section. You can create new diagrams with fret diagram properties. It may be over the excellent if we can save the chords we created before. So we can use it later. At least if we can copy the diagram we create and paste it on another measure, I tried it but it failed. (mscoreNightly-r5240)
Thanks again.
In reply to fret diagram by baritonverdi
I'm confused, Is the guitar fret diagram available currently? I received a reply from ChurchOrganist earlier and he said it's not currently available but will be soon. Is there a preview version download I can try out to see the feature? Edit, nevermind, I just found the nightly build. If the developers are reading this, you guys might want to model your chord diagram feature like this program: http://www.qwikchord.com/portal/ Very impressive stuff. It seems the source is available for that program, perhaps it could be incorporated into MuseScore? The only difference would be that we wouldn't be saving graphics, we would be inserting them into our score.
In reply to I'm confused, Is the guitar by mikec
I haven't looked into it, but Qwikchord looks to be Windows only, and that is not the point of MuseScore.
In reply to Windows only by cwhysall
Yes - if you check the download page, it says the source was written in Visual Basic, so sadly no use to MuseScore :(
Someone mentioned that there is such a thing in the symbols menu but I couldn't find one. There is a rectangular box (in portrait orientation) but it only has horizontal lines...not vertical ones required for a fretboard diagram.
I am a NEWBIE to this software.
THANKS!
Jim
In reply to Guitar Chord Diagram by av84fun
There is no chord diagram in MuseScore 1.2. It will be present in the next version, MuseScore 2.0.
In reply to There is no chord diagram in by [DELETED] 5
THANKS! I misunderstood earlier posts on this topic.
Best,
Jim