Guitar Tab Displayed as alphabetical named notes with #'s and b's
Hi How do I get the guitar tab to display as as alphabetical named notes with #'s and b's . When I use the advanced staff /stave properties, as detailed below in "----" I think it is giving me lute tab which gives the letters a,b,c,d,e,f,g, linked to frets, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,.
What I want to achieve is when I select the note C, 3rd space in the stave in the notation with treble clef -8 at the beginning of the score , that the tab will give me the note name C in alphabet form on the 5th line of tab. Or if I were to select C an octave lower on the notation stave as in, 1 leger line below the stave, the guitar tab stave would allow me to place that C on the 1st or 2nd line of tab as in 6th or 5th strings.
Or a Db on treble clef stave shows as Db on tab on any line/string?
As you can see from the attached muse score score: B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F is showing as a,b,c,d,e,f,g,
This is what happens now:
"control click on staff anywhere in the bar to open stave dialog window
select stave properties
opens stave properties
select in top right hand corner box lower right “advanced style properties
opens tablature stave
select options for the fret marks numbers letters etc."
Any help would be much appreciated. Also How will I know if I get an answer to this question? Thanks
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Comments
The notenames plugin, maybe?
In reply to The notenames plugin, maybe? by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi JoJo that does put notes above the stave. I would like to replace the numbers on the tab with letters ABCDEFG with possibility for accidentals attached. Please see attached example of how note names plug in shows note names.
In reply to Hi JoJo that does put notes… by satg
It's currently not possible to " get the guitar tab to display as as alphabetical named notes with #'s and b's"
Of course, you can always hack something, eg made invisible the fret marks in Tab, and as you do, enter text (or with chords feature), and then put at the right place. Of course, for a short file, that's may be a trick, but not for a complete score. 1Microcosm_For_Two tpt solo example of note names and tab.mscz
And in more, I don't fully understand your purpose, the advantage to display the note names into the Tab?
That said, know that for the In the next major version (3.0), a new feature will allow this in a very simple way, in the standard staff.
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In reply to It's currently not possible… by cadiz1
That notation with letters inside the note heads looks great. When Is 3.0 releasing?
In reply to That notation with letters… by satg
"When Is 3.0 releasing?"
Good question! Usual answer: when it is ready :)
But surely not for soon I believe.
In reply to That notation with letters… by satg
This reminds me of when I met the mesa boogie amplifier people in L.A. in 1985 and asked would it be possible to mix a clean channel with a distorted channel? to get a blend of both? and they got very upset and said why would anyone ever want to do that? -it doesn't make any sense. And a few years later many people would go on to do exactly that, using various methods to achieve that sound.
In reply to Hi JoJo that does put notes… by satg
If you want note names in tab staves instead of the fret numbers, you don't need tab staves at all. People able to translated a note name into a fret position don't need tabs in the first place, or what am I missing here?
In reply to If you want note names in… by Jojo-Schmitz
Good point!
One reason I could think of is that maybe the OP uses tiny stickers pasted on the fretboard, each sticker displaying the letter name of the note at that location.
So... the TAB shows the string and note name, the sticker on the fretboard shows where to press.
Regards.
In reply to Good point!… by Jm6stringer
That would be useful too. Good for students.
In reply to If you want note names in… by Jojo-Schmitz
I would like to use this to transition students from tab to standard notation and I want to see for myself if this form of tab is better for me to visualise fretboard and notes. I have 42 years of reading notation on the guitar and tab I haven't used for so long. I like it. It works very well for me on bluegrass 5 string banjo.
In reply to I would like to use this to… by satg
Can you show an example of this notation/display (eg from a published score) for banjo?
In reply to Can you show an example of… by cadiz1
Ok, Forget the banjo tab comment. I was just saying banjo tab is good for me on banjo. What I am asking for does not exist anywhere- as far as I know. It probably does , if I can think of it then I am sure it's been done before.
In reply to If you want note names in… by Jojo-Schmitz
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In reply to If you want note names in… by Jojo-Schmitz
I think it would be a really good way to visualise music theory on the guitar fretboard. I would like to try it out and see if that is true. I can write it out by hand on lined paper. It just looks so much better in musescore.
In reply to I think it would be a really… by satg
The lute tab almost does what I want , but doesn't allow #'s or b's and the letters don't correspond to the pitch of notes, it's locations of positions in letters, like fret numbers.
Welcome to the forums!
Could you explain your use case more precisely?
Maybe you have a TAB staff you wish to change to standard notation and you are naming the TAB notes as an interim step?
If so, you can use a linked staff where MuseScore handles the conversion automatically (without the interim need to 'name' the notes to facilitate TAB-to-G clef transcription).
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook-notation/tablature#multiple-staves
Regards.
In reply to Welcome to the forums!… by Jm6stringer
Hi I use the notation to tab feature a lot, it is very useful. Sometimes I use it for my invented tunings that I am unfamiliar with and it shows me ways around the fretboard I would not have thought of otherwise. I would like to try having the letters on the strings of the tab, as I have shown before.