Rythm Slash notation above the staff
It would be nice to be able to occasionally use rhythm slashes that are not on a staff. When creating lead sheets or fake sheets with lyrics, it's cumbersome to have a staff devoted to chords that will be strummed. This used to be seen commonly on sheet music transcriptions available in some magazines and in folios put out by Cherry Lane Music. Here's an example:
As you can see, you can abandon slash notation and switch to a staff when the slash notation is no longer going to be practical.
I've tried to figure out a way to do this with MuseScore, and I can sort-of do it with a one-line staff whose elements I can make invisible, but it's messy, vertical lines at the beginning of each line extend up to the invisible staff, and... well, it's just clunky.
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This is easy to do in MuseScore 2.0! Just enter notes for the rhythms you want into voice 3, select the passage, then run Edit / Tools / Toggle Rhythmic Slash Notation. It's easiest if you do this before entering the real notes into voice 1, but if you already have the real notes there, then just deslect them by turning off Voice 1 in View / Selection Filter first. See the Handbook section on "Tools" for more details.
In reply to This is easy to do in by Marc Sabatella
Wow. That works amazingly well. It'd be neat if I could move them up a little, but I'll look deeper into that section of the handbook and see what all I can do. Thanks for the tip!
In reply to Wow. That works amazingly by barlitone
To move them up, just use the Inspector. With the passage still selected, press the Notes button at the bottom of the Inspector window if necessary to restrict the selection to just the notes, then nudge the Vertical offset a little. It defaults to -0.50, which is to say, floating half a space above the staff. Except on drum staves, where they sit directly on the staff.
In reply to To move them up, just use the by Marc Sabatella
Hello, I've been struggling with slash notation above staff. If I nudge the vertical offset it only applies to note heads. I use selection filter to select voice 3, then inspector to select notes, but it selects only note heads. Is there a workaround?
In reply to Hello, I've been struggling… by pekka.kurki
And other glitch, slash notation to voice3 makes stem direction to voice1 up to all notes. Doesn't look ideal like that. Perhaps Musescore could sense slash notation in the future to not make all the stems go up..?
In reply to And other glitch, slash… by pekka.kurki
Yes, that would be ideal indeed. For now you need to set stems manually. I seem to recall this being discussed before and someone even working on code to handle this, but it seems maybe we didn't get all the way there. Can someone help refresh my memory here?
In reply to Hello, I've been struggling… by pekka.kurki
Got it, I need to nudge chord vertical offset. :)