How to indicate a "blue" note? standard notation and tablature

• Feb 22, 2019 - 14:04

I see that there are natural-flat and natural-sharp signs in the palette now. Is that their usage, in-between semi-tone pitches?
What about tablature? Is there a standard way of notating a bend, or in-between fret position for slide guitar?
I'm a guitarist who has never used tablature as a player, but currently uses it as a composer. So my tabs knowledge is limited.

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• Feb 22, 2019 - 14:27

Thanks, that's a bend, which is nice to learn how to notate in MuseScore. What about an unbent blue note on a slide guitar, a flat 3rd? That's what I'm trying to transcribe right now. Actually, in this case it's a flat 7th + 5th degrees, not a flat 3rd.

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• Feb 22, 2019 - 16:05

I am fiddling with bends right now. I don't see a downward bend, with makes sense if you exclude slide guitar.
I can do this with an upward bend on the note a half step down, but that's not my preference. I need to look at more slide guitar tabs online...

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• Feb 22, 2019 - 14:53

Natural-flat and natural sharp signs are used when the previous note had an accidental besides a natural or the second accidental. So before a natural-sharp you would have seen a flat or a double sharp or double flat. I means cancel the previous accidental and use the other one instead. It's not necessary but is used in printed music.

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• Feb 22, 2019 - 16:18

Here is a page with an example of different 1/4 tone accidentals:
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/jc…
Version 2 had these accidentals available in the palette, plus some others you can see here:
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tables/gould-arrow-quartertone-acci…
and here:
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tables/stein-zimmermann-accidentals…
The palettes in MuseScore 3 used to be missing a lot of entries, and it's still missing these and a few others.

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