Guitar bends and styles

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ry1633
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Post by ry1633 » Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:20 pm

I'm working on transcription project that will be laid out in Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. I've always struggled with notating guitar bends despite using Finale for almost 30 years. In the attached example, I have bends where the bend is into the note, and the target note does not occur on the beat. But I also have pre-bends or ghost-bends where the target note occurs on the beat so I put it as a grace note in parenthesis with the stem removed. How does this look?

Also, in the TAB staff, the transparent notes (bend note target fret numbers) will not show up when moving the image to Illustrator or InDesign - is this supposed to be that way?
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