Allow bracket in "arpeggios and glissandos" to share chord with other arpeggio symbols
2.0.2 official.
A few issues with the Half barre symbol in the "Arpeggios and Slides" palette. The underlying problem is that half-barre is being treated as an arpeggio for display and playback purposes:
(1) The Half-barre simply indicates a partial bar across the fretboard with one of the fingers, it is not an arpeggio symbol and should have no playback affect.
(2) MuseScore does not allow more than one arpeggio symbol per chord (if you try, MS simply replaces one with the other). But half-barre is not an arpeggio and may need to share a chord with an arpeggio.
(3) Half-barre doesn't belong in the "Arpeggios and Slides" palette. It should be in another palette instead – perhaps "Lines."
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Thewre is no "Arpeggios and Slides' Palette, just an "Arpeggios and Glissandi" palette. Hence there is no barre nor half-barre symbol in it, what make you think otherwise? Which symbol exactly are you talking about?
"Arpeggios and Glissandi" (aka "slides") palette is what was what was meant. This is the symbol in question:
And some practical examples from an old Tarrega edition:
It is used to indicate a partial barre (half barre?); or, in example 2, a section of open strings. But it has no playback properties and may be used in conjunction with another arpeggio symbol.
Maybe that symbol is also used for half-barre, but here it is am alternative symbol for arpeggio and behaves accordingly. As far as I know there is no Symbol for barre or half barre yet available in MuseScore, so getting them added would be a feature request.
And I currently fail to see how this might relate to Tablature?
I'd like to put in a feature request for a guitar half-barre (partial barre): a symbol that looks exactly like the bracket arpeggio (pictured above), but without playback properties and that can share a chord with other arpeggio symbols.
Incidentally, according to Dolmetch.com , the bracket is now uncommon as an arpeggio symbol.
The extensible square bracket has other uses too:
(1) String divisi markings (Adler: The Study of Orchestration):
![divisi.PNG]( "divisi.PNG")
(2) Indicate "play with same hand" in piano music:
![piano_same_hand.PNG]( "piano_same_hand.PNG")
(3) Indicate "play with same finger " in piano music.
(4) Stacked piano fingering?
![stacked_fingering.PNG]( "stacked_fingering.PNG")
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The original issue stands.