Guitar Strings options
I would like to use the circled fingering for indicating which finger to use on the fretboard and then be able to color the number to indicate which string the note is played on. This would eliminate trying to draw and place lines for me when making Segovia's Diatonic Major and Minor Scales for guitar. I would need six colors dedicated to each string(1-6).
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You do realise that by using circled numbers for fingerings you will be acting contrary to accepted and established fingering standards for guitar which uses the circled note to represent the string?
I would have thought that a better answer to your problem would be to use TAB to notate scales rather than notation, there being no intrinsical musical value in writing them out in notation.
If you are intent upon doing this, then it is already possible to colour the circled numbers by means of text properties obtainable from the context (right click) menu.
HTH
Michael
In reply to You do realise that by using by ChurchOrganist
Thank-you for your help. So what I should be doing is using the circled numbers to indicate the string and the uncircled numbers to indicate fretting fingers? On Segovia's scales he uses uncircled numbers to indicate fingering and lines with a number to indicate the string. I found it very difficult to draw the line below the staff like he does and was trying to make a work around with Musescore. Anyway thanks again, RaySeb.
In reply to Thank-you for your help. So by RaySeb
One way round this would be to colour the normal numbers to indicate the string and provide a key explaining which colours you are using for each string.
As I said before, the colour of fingering is controlled from the context menu - right click and choose text properties. The colour change dialogue is near the top on the left.
HTH
Michael
How's this for an attempt to look like Segovia's scales??
In reply to How's this for an attempt to by RaySeb
It's a long time ago since I used it, but that's doesn't seem to be the same fingering I learnt for a 3 octave B flat melodic minor when I took Grade 8 - way back in the depths of the 70's :)
In reply to It's a long time ago since I by ChurchOrganist
It's the fingering in the " Diatonic Major and minor Scales" by Andres Segovia, no question about it.
In reply to It's the fingering in the " by RaySeb
I'm sure it is, but there are probably as many ways of fingering the same scale as there are frets on the guitar.
When I was putting students through the Trinity College exams, the rule was that any fingering would be accepted provided that it "worked" but I always used to tell my students they'd better have a bloody good reason for departing from the fingering in the Trinity College Scalebook :)