Correct Guitar Bends
I'm trying to do professional quality guitar transcriptions, but the bends are a problem.
In most scores, bends are represented by a simple line, with an angle halfway through it (see Good bends example.) The reader can tell how much the note is being bent by reading normally, and you can tell if it's an instant bend by the stemless grace note before the bend line. The little 1/2/full bend symbols we have at the moment are fine for tablature, but are too vague, and sometimes messy, for staff notation (see Bad bends example.)
As far as I can tell, these bend lines are impossible to recreate in MuseScore; if they are possible, no-one knows how to do them.
Adding these bend lines would increase the usefulness of this software significantly for people trying to do contemporary guitar transcriptions. Sibelius can do it, so why can't MuseScore?
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Comments
I agree!
I found what I thought was a good workaround: use the tremolo bar marking as well as the bend.
The V-shape can be manipulated to look quite like the "good bend' picture.
I then made the bend symbol invisible on the notation staff and the tremolo symbol invisible on the TAB staff.
I thought this was good until I closed and re-opened the program - the bend stayed invisible but all the trem symbols became visible again - VERY annoying.