[sib-access] Muted guitar chords (was A measure with part slahses and part notes)
- From: "Dan Rugman" <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:44:28 +0100
The usual advice stands. Ask a sighted guitarist how it should look and then
think about how that can be applied in Sibelius. For what it's worth, here's
my take, although it might not be that informative, since I don't write that
much commercial guitar music.
You can use the guitar palm mute line when the muting is for a few notes. If
it's for a long period I'd just write "mute" above the staff in technique
text and "unmute" to return to a full sound. There may be some super-duper
symbols that you can add but I don't know what they are and the text gets
the job done. This is good for both tab and normal staves.
As far as I know, you only use X in two situations, both of which depend on
the notation. Unfortunately, we can't do either of these, at least not
without a massive amount of headaches.
1. If you're writing the notes on a tablature staff and the muting produces
unpitched notes, you put an X on the staff in stead of a number. Don't
confuse this with a silent string. If a string is silent, you just don't put
anything there. After all, it takes a rare kind of genius to play notes
which aren't even written down.
2. If you're using chord diagrams - the grids which show frets and strings
with blobs to indicate the fingering - an X is used to show that a string is
silent. This is because chord diagrams are intended for use by those who
strum everything, and so they need special instructions not to do something.
Dan Rugman
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