For a guitar piece I would like to notate a slide-in.
The jazz articulation Lift (straight) seemed appropriate but when I enter the fingering indication (which I need because it is an E4 played on the 2nd string followed by the same note played on the 1st string) the finger number is pushed away from the note.
Then I discovered the fingering shift option but it doesn’t work. I have seen that other users had problems with this option. I guess it works only when it is expected, so for open strings notes it won’t work even though I specified the string to be used.
Are you looking for this? It works for notes belonging to fretted instruments, like guitars.
The fingering shift is more intended for string instruments like violin.
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Beppe, please note that the slide-in option will only be available if “fingering inside staff” is expressly allowed in engraving options. If you then want fingerings to appear outside of the staff anyway, you’ll have to flip that option for every fingering separately…
Cheers, Benji
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Well, sort of, but without the mandatory fingering. A good example of what I am looking for can be found here:
I am referring to those tiny dashes.
The image is from the article available here: Acoustic Guitar Notation Guide | Acoustic Guitar
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Did you ever figure this out?
I would suggest using glissando lines for the slides between notes, and the straight lift/fall jazz articulations for the slides “to nothing”. The other notations mentioned earlier are more relevant where the slide lines need to align with fingering numbers on the notation staff, which is more a feature of classical guitar notation.
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Just looked for the same thing. You can edit the vertical of lifts and falls in engraving options => jazz articulations => change “vertical span” (I changed it to 2). The default lift seems far to big for a common slide in.
You can edit the vertical or horizontal span of a single (e.g. bigger) slide in in engrave mode. Either by pulling the handle of the lift/fall or in the properties menu at the bottom => jazz articulations => offset.
Greetings, Johannes
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This was the default - far too big for my taste:
Apparently those slides are still missing and I experimented with the lift and fall, but couldn’t get decent results and the “legato bow” and the “s” had to be done manually. So my question is, why can’t this be done as an ornament (like: hammer ons and pull offs)? That would be so easy …
“Easy for the user,” I suspect you mean.
Yes, indeed! I don’t have any clue on programming, so i meant for sure us users (guitarists) …
And besides, slides are often an ornamental technique in modern guitar playing and it’s not question of fingering positions.
In Guitar Pro the slides look like this in tablature and I would want same kind of length for slides in Dorico too:
Yes.
We need this. Just like “H” and “P”. With configurable lines between notes. “S” is one of the three ways to play legato on a guitar, arguably even regular slurs should have a switch for auto-centered H, P or S (with line) in the properties panel in case of fretted and plucked instruments.
B.
P. S.: I myself use H and P very rarely for music I perform myself, because they are obviously implied, but they can be handy for students…
Entering my nightly transcription/inscription/engraving into Dorico Pro 6 to teach myself in rapid time. Yes, another guitar player here confirming we need a good way to enter guitar slides into notes
(Edit. Just found the jazz articulations lift category in the Options panel. This works for now but I wish there was a shortcut)