Category change? Or adding an extra symbol in 'Lines'.
Hello,
As a classical guitar player and making scores in MuseScore,
I often use the vertical hook, which is placed in the 'Arpeggio&Glissando' category,
to denote that the first LH finger should cover as many strings as the hook shows.
This is common in classical guitar notation.
But when playing back the score, MuseScore interpret this as an arpeggio and plays it that way.
I find this a little bit annoying and place a request that in a next version (2?) there will be the same hook available in the 'Lines' category.
Hope this request will be honoured.
Joe.
Comments
It's kind of too late for new features in 2.0, but this has been requested before, so I suspect it will make it in before too long. See for example #16279: L-shaped sign for hand distribution (piano) and [#17347] for example. See especially the clever workaround suggested where you use a horizontal hooked line but make the line very short and the hook very long.
In reply to It's kind of too late for new by Marc Sabatella
Or rather http://musescore.org/en/node/17347 (it is not an issue but a forum topic)
In reply to Or rather by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks Jojo-Schmitz. Good idea!
I can use this method for indicating a 'hinge barré' in a score which I normally
also did with a standard hook.
Joe.
You can avoid hearing the arpeggio during playback by entering one note of the chord in a separate voice. Then drag the vertical hook from the palette to that single note and stretch the hook by double clicking on it and dragging the 'edit handles' to include the barred notes in the chord.
See attachment.
Regards.
In reply to Vertical hook by Jm6stringer
Thanks Jm6stringer for this tip!
Joe.