Since MuseScore is intended as a general-purpose score editor for all instruments, expressing guitar-specific performance techniques sometimes takes a little creativity. Note that by the end of step 3, your tab staff is already 99% done! You can just consider your score finished at that point if you don’t care about the standard staff.
Right-click the tab staff and select “Staff/Part Properties”.Keeping note values and ties confined to the standard staff results in a cleaner tab staff. I find MuseScore’s default tab style pretty noisy and hard to read. The default choice of LilyPond’s Emmentaler works fine, but I prefer heavier fonts for legibility. In “Format” > “Style” > “Score”, set the music symbols font to Bravura. Select the newly added staff, click “Add Linked Staff”, and change that second staff’s type to “Tab.Add “Acoustic Guitar” or “Classical Guitar”.Select the “Choose new instruments” template.
In the new score wizard, enter Title and Composer.Here are some notes on how I produce tab files like this one: Journey - Don't Stop Believin'.pdfįor more advanced topics, check out MuseScore’s Tablature handbook.
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After brief forays into LilyPond and TuxGuitar (and a failed attempt at running Guitar Pro in Wine), I’ve settled on MuseScore for my guitar tabbing needs.