ukulele tablature
Is it possible to show preferred fingering within the tablature?
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Is it possible to show preferred fingering within the tablature?
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Yes, you can show treble clef fingerings in the tablature staff. See the Fret Marks section on this page of the MuseScore Studio Handbook:
https://handbook.musescore.org/notation/instruments-staves-and-systems/…
Sadly there's no option for showing displaying TAB staff fingerings in Roman numerals.
TAB staff Fret numbers display in Arabic numerals so I don't like fingerings also in Arabics.
Couldn’t you use Staff text? https://handbook.musescore.org/text/staff-text-system-text-and-expressi…. That is how I do it in MS3. You can drag it into position if necessary.
In reply to Couldn’t you use Staff test?… by Brer Fox
Unless I'm missing something, by resorting to Text objects I'd have to reenter each fingering and position it. And later changing to a fingering value would also require updating the Staff Text object.
In reply to Unless I'm missing something… by scorster
I thought the OP was wanting to add ‘fingering’ in the sense of what finger to use to stop a particular note/fret mark, for instance when indicating the shifts. Roman numerals aren’t much use for this IMO as they take up too much room. Instead I select the note (tab numeral) and add a finger number in a different font, italicised and maybe slightly bigger than the fret mark, to avoid any confusion.
Maybe this isn’t standard practice but the scores are arrangements I make just for my own use, and which I read from a screen. If they were printed I’d use a pencil.
In reply to I thought the OP was wanting… by Brer Fox
> I thought the OP was wanting to add ‘fingering’ in the sense of what finger to use to stop a particular note/fret mark, for instance when indicating the shifts.
Yes. And OP will be able to add fingerings by following the provided the link and reading the instructions.
> Roman numerals aren’t much use for this IMO as they take up too much room.
Different strokes ...
I almost always use a linked TAB staff—without fingerings set to not display—so I remind my students to look at the treble staff for fingerings.
> If they were printed I’d use a pencil.
That's a great idea. I wonder if it's possible to set the fingering font (for just a tab staff) to a handwritten font like Comic Sans—the result would look like instructor's annotations.
In reply to > I thought the OP was… by scorster
Fair enough - I don’t play the guitar and don’t know the conventions. Also I hardly ever use a linked staff, or if I do while arranging, I remove it when I’m finished, to get more music on the page. As a violinist I’m used to Arabic numerals above the note — roman numerals, used less often, are for indicating the actual string. Horses for courses!