Glide Thumb symbol in Musescore

[Jody Stecher]

You know that thing where the thumb moves from string 4 to string three in one stroke?  Like with a C major chord for instance. Bradbury calls it "glide thumb".  His symbol is a diagonal line moving from SW to NE (as it were) connecting x to x.

How the heck can I get Musescore to produce this?

Also Musescore has a lot "guitar" symbols that are the same for banjo. Except for thumb. Instead of x it's a vertical line. Is there a way to covert this? I've been making a text entry of "x" then reversing its position to be below the staff and replacing the vertical line with this. Note by note, this is tedious

Any help will be most appreciated.

[Trapdoor2]

Use a slide (glissando). You can turn off the "gliss" text...and it looks just like the glide.

RH fingering should have a "T" for thumb. I think you can create an X but don't know how to do that. Scratch that. You can't unless you're a programmer. Your only avenue to an X is by adding it as a staff text and then repositioning it.

Reality: even the actual T fingering is dedicated to the LH and appears next to the note you've selected.

Best bet is what you're doing, adding it as Staff Text and positioning it manually.

[Jody Stecher]

Glissando  is what I looked for and couldn't find in Palettes in the updated latest version of Musecore. Now I found it hiding in the invisible section called Arpgeggios & Glissandi. I stumbled upon how to make it visible.

Gremlins!

[Trapdoor2]

Yah, there are many parts and pieces that are hiding until you add them. It took me forever to get mine setup the way I like it. I think I searched days for something that was eventually found attached to the Guitar palette.

This latest update moved a bunch of things around. They usually don't affect what I do but this latest had me tearing my last two hairs out. Some changes are nice...but just when I get used to it...

They've removed at least one function that I liked. It used to allow a treble clef substitute for the "TAB" clef (which I hate and delete). It seems redundant to have the big "TAB" label instead of a clef. To me, it would be like replacing a clef symbol with "MUSIC". Besides, the old one laid on the tab G string line nicely...just like in notation. Sigh.

[Jody Stecher]

It's exactly the same for me with shoes. When I find a good pair that fits they discontinue the model.

Trapdoor2 said:

Yah, there are many parts and pieces that are hiding until you add them. It took me forever to get mine setup the way I like it. I think I searched days for something that was eventually found attached to the Guitar palette.

This latest update moved a bunch of things around. They usually don't affect what I do but this latest had me tearing my last two hairs out. Some changes are nice...but just when I get used to it...

They've removed at least one function that I liked. It used to allow a treble clef substitute for the "TAB" clef (which I hate and delete). It seems redundant to have the big "TAB" label instead of a clef. To me, it would be like replacing a clef symbol with "MUSIC". Besides, the old one laid on the tab G string line nicely...just like in notation. Sigh.

[Jody Stecher]

I found a fairly quick way. I select the note to be played by the thumb. I click on the T from the fingering palette. Sure enough it places it beside the note. I grab it with the cursor and slide it below the note. Then I right click and select "Edit element". Now the T appears in a box. I type in x and delete the T.  Better than dragging Text down from above the staff.

Trapdoor2 said:

Use a slide (glissando). You can turn off the "gliss" text...and it looks just like the glide.

RH fingering should have a "T" for thumb. I think you can create an X but don't know how to do that. Scratch that. You can't unless you're a programmer. Your only avenue to an X is by adding it as a staff text and then repositioning it.

Reality: even the actual T fingering is dedicated to the LH and appears next to the note you've selected.

Best bet is what you're doing, adding it as Staff Text and positioning it manually.

[Jody Stecher]

And then for subsequent x-s I can repeat the process but another option is to copy the first x and paste it where I want it. Now *that* is pretty quick.

Doing the converted T creates an x of modest size. Just right. The Text T is larger and a bit In The Way.

Jody Stecher said:

I found a fairly quick way. I select the note to be played by the thumb. I click on the T from the fingering palette. Sure enough it places it beside the note. I grab it with the cursor and slide it below the note. Then I right click and select "Edit element". Now the T appears in a box. I type in x and delete the T.  Better than dragging Text down from above the staff.