Guitar tablature
I'm new to Musescore and I'm wondering if it's possible to convert my guitar sheet music to tablature notation. I have tried adding accoustic guitar tab and the tab lines appear below the standing music lines on the page. I can't get any further than that after going down the reset to template route. I don't even know if I'm making sense here. Any advice will be appreciated.
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Strictly to convert:
Press "I" (or menu Edit/Instruments)
In the right column, change the "Staff type" (see dropdown list), so for Simple Tab or Common or Full depending your wish.
In reply to Strictly to convert: Press … by cadiz1
I tried this and this is what I got. I'm still not doing something right but I'll just keep at it. Thank you for the advice.
In reply to I tried this and this is… by eleanorjones@g…
That's not an added linked staff, nor a normal staff converted onto a tablature type
You need to add a linked staff, then change thar into Tablature
In reply to You need to add a linked… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks Jojo. I'm going to give that a go next.
In reply to Thanks Jojo. I'm going to… by eleanorjones@g…
Hmm, not sure at all if it works as is. Apparently your score is the result of a PDF conversion, right?
First, you have to change instrument by right-clicking on the first staff/ Staff properties/ "Instrument Change"/ and so, choose Guitar in the instrument list.
Once this is done, if you only want to convert the first staff to Tablature, do the simple operation I described above (via Editing Instruments, and changing staff type)
If you want two staves to be displayed, the first one as standard, the second one in Tablature, then you have to add a Tablature staff (always in "I") whether it is linked or not.
If difficulties continue, attach this score (and not a simple picture) for help.
In reply to Hmm, not sure if it works as… by cadiz1
I think it's worked...by trial and error. It is a PDF conversion. The tab ridiculously far up the neck of the guitar but I don't think that I can expect any better. I'm attaching the PDF and a screenshot of what I ended up with. There are no copyright issues. This was a free download. Thank you for your advice.
In reply to I think it's worked...by… by eleanorjones@g…
Transposed down and ended up with something I could work with.
You wrote:
I'm new to Musescore and I'm wondering if it's possible to convert my guitar sheet music to tablature notation.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tablature#staff-tab-new-score
Create a score for Guitar + Tablature. Use linked staves, enter notes in the treble clef staff and TAB automatically appears, because staves are linked.
Have a look (open in MuseScore):
TAB.mscz