Hey folks......
Any suggestions for notating guitar glissandi (A/K/A "slides"—but not using a bottleneck-type slide)?
I've been using the Smart Shapes Line tool, which is arduous and especially time-consuming when the slide goes from one stanza to the next. (See example.)
I see references to Tab in the manual but I do not use tab and am philosophically opposed to it (guitar players should learn how to read), so that's not a relevant solution for me.
Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
Notating Guitar Glissandi
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Well--that was startlingly obvious. (Thanks)
Which leads to other questions…
- When glissing from the last note on one line to the first note on the next, is there a better way to do this? The gliss keeps wanting to jump to different notes in the chord unless I *carefully* draw the gliss off the end of the staff before pointing to a note on the next staff.
- Because the wavy gliss lines are thicker than the straight lines, they obscure accidentals that occur between the two notes. Since most of my glasses are chromatic, there are almost always accidentals before the second note(s). Any suggestions there?
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Obviously you are working in Page View.Rick_in_MN wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:29 pm… When glissing from the last note on one line to the first note on the next, is there a better way to do this? The gliss keeps wanting to jump to different notes in the chord unless I *carefully* draw the gliss off the end of the staff before pointing to a note on the next staff …
You have not tried Scroll View?
Many users enter all the music in Scroll View, and do not use Page View until they are working on the layout.
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OK, I'll give scroll view a try for this. Thank you.Peter Thomsen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:49 pmObviously you are working in Page View.
You have not tried Scroll View?
Many users enter all the music in Scroll View, and do not use Page View until they are working on the layout.
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