Game Plan/Strategy

My suggest for using chord symbols and using slashes have nothing to do with each other. That is, they aren't two different ways of accomplishing the same goal, they are each designed to achieve a different goal.

• I suggested chord symbols for ease of entry. You can enter multiple chord symbols in a measure, and have them spaced appropriately, without the need to enter quarter notes first or manually adjust horizontal positions later. It's just plain easier to use.

• I suggest slashes to make the score more readable to someone who doesn't know the piece already. Your score is essentially unusable as it unless you already know the song, because it's virtually impossible to tell exactly when to change chords - you'd have to be reading the fret diagrams, attempting to follow the lyrics, attempting to listen to the singer, all at once. Showing the rhythmic structure of the piece using either actual notes or at least using slashes is the solution to this. So as I said, as long as you promise not to make anyone else read this, you don't need the slashes, but if you ever think you might ask anyone to play from your charts, please do them a favor and include the slashes.

As for staff type of text one enters into a score, click a note or rest and press Ctrl+T, type whatever you want. You can thus enter the lyrics for an entire measure at a time, no need for dummy notes. It's still going to look very odd spacing-wise, and if you do need the lyrics to align with the chords (a necessity if you were actually wanting others to use this) you would want to go back to using lyrics. But this way is a bit simpler.

I went ahead and updated your test to show you what I mean. I removed the slashes since you say no one will look at this but you. I increase the minimum chord symbol spacing in Style / General as I explained previously. This makes the chord symbols (and with them, the fretboard diagrams) space perfectly with no horizontal adjustment needed. I didn't hide the chord symbols yet, so you can see how they are being used. But I did turn off clefs & time signatures in staff properties. I entered the first few measures using staff text with no dummy notes, the next few with dummy notes & lyrics (I made the dummy notes stemless but didn't hide them yet, again, so you can better see what I did).

To really see the advantage of these approaches, you need to look at how this can be used automatically in new scores. So"

Save this score to your Templates folder. Now, use File / New to create a new score, and select this termplate. You'll see because I used style settings and staff properties rather than manual adjustments, none of that work needs to be redone. So, for instance, click the rest in the first measure, hit Ctrl+K, and enter "C C C C" to put four chords there. Now attach fret diagrams to those four chords. Notice how they don't overlap? That's because MuseScore automatically spaces chord symbols according to your Style settings. No more manual adjustment of fret diagrams! Now select the rest again and hit Ctrl+T, then type some text. Notice how it is positioned on the staff automatically? Again, that's because I used style settings rather than manual adjustments.

Doing things this way, you would hardly ever need to make any adjustments of any kind - you could just enter your chords and lyrics (either as staff text or with dummy notes & lyrics).