Add capo support to tablature staff

• Mar 17, 2013 - 14:43
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
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active
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I have not looked at the details (yet), but the pull request quoted by Jojo-Schmitz seems to refer to chord symbols only, with no relation to TAB's.

M.

just a note that (in my opinion) there should be a linkage between the "Play Transposition" staff property and capo support. Just as the "Play Transposition" property affects how notes are placed on a standard staff, I think it should have a similar effect on TAB fret numbers and possibly "capo text" markings.

here is a MS2.0Beta1 thread discussing this issue: http://musescore.org/en/node/31016

No recent addition of a capo feature; however, I recently made TAB staves able to deal with transposition; this may make implementing a Capo element simpler.

I'll share my opinion that the recent advance of TAB staves honoring the "play transposition" staff property is a very useful step forward, even without a dedicated "capo" element.

There are a few benefits of using "play transposition" as a means to describe the effect of a capo:

- "Play transposition" affects notes displayed on standard notation (pitched) staves as well as TAB staves
- Chord/Harmony features also take "play transposition" into account
- compatible with MS1.1 scores

The current feature set lacks a few items that have been discussed, but imho these are not showstoppers:

- While lacking a "CapoText" element, a simple staff text element can be used to show the capo position typographically
- Also lacking is dedicated handling for import/export of MusicXML capo elements.
- Since play transposition is a staff property, there is no facility to change a capo position measure-by-measure (am not sure how often this challenge would arise)

In summary, I think that with recent advancements, MS2 has "good enough" capo support and some of the gaps could be incrementally addressed in the future.

best regards,
markt

Having read the various threads about capo support, I tend to agree with @mtherieau: for a tab staff, the staff property "play transposition" currently provides the exact behavior required for a (fixed-position) capo.

I propose to close this issue and solve #20513: [MusicXML] support capo element by exporting the play transposition as capo to MusicXML and vice versa. When importing Recordares tablature sample file, this results in correct behavior.