How do I add the bass clef?

• Dec 21, 2015 - 03:12

I entered the TAB notes and see the notes as shown but I would like to add the bass clef for clarity.
Can this be done?

Bass clef.JPG

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• Dec 21, 2015 - 04:58

No, it is for me to play on piano.
I am not sure what happened but that image is not the same as my original. After I finished that section, I saved it and experimented with the copy. Somehow, then notes got shifted, what appears to be, one octave lower.

Either way, I still want to install the bass clef.

Bass clef 2.JPG

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• Dec 21, 2015 - 05:50

Ok, getting closer,....

In my original set up, when I entered the number of the fret for guitar, the program placed that note in the upper staff for piano. Now that I have the three, the note is still being added to the top staff. Should the software recognize that note, if low enough, and place it in the bass clef/

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• Dec 21, 2015 - 10:14

Is it correct to presume that the guitar TAB will translate only to the G8vb clef and that may be why it is not using the bass clef? Is it possible to get it to use both the G clef and the Base clef?

Also: It is not a matter of playing Guitar TAB with piano, it is a matter of translating the Guitar to piano.

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• Dec 21, 2015 - 10:35

You'd need to upshift all strings an octave for the notes to match the piano treble key.

Coy can't have a treble and a bass staff being linked to one tablatur staff at the same time, it is either or and you simply get that by dragging the corresponding clef from the Palette onto the staff or into the measure from when on that clef should be in effect

If you just want to translate a(n existing) guitar TAB score to piano, copy and the measures from the TAB staff and paste it into ta piano stafe, then optionally adjust the octave (shift+uparrow)

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• Jan 26, 2017 - 22:24

When I do this there is no "add stave." If I choose an instrument it does not give me an option to choose bass clef for a new voice. All options are treble. I've been picking around this for an hour just trying to have treble and bass clef together for four part vocals, now that I realize I need them, and I'm about to start a brand new chart out of frustration (and I've already written the entire chart as a lead line.)

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• Jan 26, 2017 - 22:44

Here is my work around, at least for my purposes: switching to four part choral, (treble and bass clefs) from lead line (melody only and treble clef only) - SELECT ALL on existing chart - CREATE A NEW FILE and choose the score template you want - when finished, PASTE (control V) into new file. So far so good. That shouldn't be necessary, and MS should make its options for this much clearer.

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• Jan 26, 2017 - 23:01

It does not seem your question is related to this thread, which was about tablature specifically? It helps to start new threads for new questions, and attach the specific score you are having trouble with so we can understand better.

From what I can tell, you created a score with only a single treble clef staff (maybe you didn't even create the score, but just used the default "My First Score"?) and have now decided you wish to add a second staff to this?

Very simple: press "I" to display the instruments dialog, then select the *existing* staff in the list at right, and then the "Add Staff" button will become available. Click it and a new staff will be added to your score. Done, that simple.

Or, you could open at the "Vocals" section of the instrument list at left, then double click the "Bass". This will add a new instrument with a single staff to your score, so you have two instruments of one staff each. The difference between this and the previous method is that the first one gives you a single instrument with two staves, meaning you won't have independent control of the sounds of those two staves in the Mixer.

Or, when creating a new score, simply choose the template that is already set up exactly the way I think you are saying you want it, rather than trying to recreate this setup yourself: it's called "SATB Closed Score".

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• Nov 11, 2017 - 18:10

It's not clear what you mean, and would be helpful if you posted the score you are having trouble with and describe step by step what you are doing, what you want to see happen, and what happens instead.

if you want to have music for bass clef & tab simultaneously, that is actually easy. Add a bass clef instrument (like any of the bass guitars), then use "Add linked staff" to add a linked staff. Now when you add notes to either staff, the corresponding note also appears in the other staff.

If you want a grant staff (treble plus bass) and a tab staff, then you can have this, but you can't make them linked, because that would require MsueScore to support eight voices for the tab staff (up to four for the treble staff and up to four for the bass) and to make lots and lots of guesses as to which voice to use in the satb staff for notes entered into the treble/bass staff or which clef in the grand staff for notes entered via tab. That is why if you wish to create this unusual style of notation, you will need to copy the music manually between the staves and decide for yourself how to allocated the clefs and voices - it will require some cleverness and creativity to do well.

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