Problem with Chord Ties in Ukulele Tablature

• Jun 21, 2017 - 03:47

I recently encountered problems with ukulele tablature chords that are tied across measures. One of a three-note or four-note chord would fail appear. I worked around this problem by inserting the missing note on the next measure and then using a slur symbol to connect the two notes that should have been tied. Unfortunately, that naturally affects the playback which doesn't recognize the slur as a tie. Is this a bug? Is there a better solution than using the slur?

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Comments

Marc Sabatella

• Jun 21, 2017 - 04:27

In order to understand, we'd need you to attach the actual score, not just a picture, and explain in more detail (step by step) what you are doing and where something appears to be going wrong for you. I didn't have any trouble creating a four note tied chord when I just tried it, and I tried a couple of different methods.

cadiz1

• Jun 21, 2017 - 07:34

It's due to the unisons in same voice (and to the re-entrant tuning of the uke)

Ie: open top string of ukuele is A4/ second fret fourth string is also A4

As you can see, by copy-paste the tab content in standard staff, with one single voice, Voice 1 eg, you receive this (so, one tie), hence the result you indicate for whole chord in your image.

(This point - Tied unisons - is traited page 69 of Behind Bars, Elaine Gould)

To get two ties (in the case of unisons), you must change of voice.
Eg: the three first notes in Voice 1, and the A4 fourth string in Voice 2

Or, depending what you prefer, the A4 fourth string in Voice 3, to keep one single stem instead of two (you can easily flip the ties if wished afterwards)

.mscz test file which recapitulates what I say: uke ties.mscz

davidtay

• Jun 21, 2017 - 07:43

Wonderfully clear explanation of my problem! I checked and true enough I was using a ukulele template where I hadn't changed the 4th G string to G3. Thank you!