Neil50

Is there a way to display the tablature staff for a few measures, while the rest of the score has just the standard notation treble clef staff? I don't really read tabs, prefer standard notation, but once in a while, when I want to move up the fretboard, and use odd fingerings, tabs do come in handy. However, if I add a tabs staff to the whole piece, it makes the piece way too long (many pages). If I could designate those few bars as a different section, with the treble and tabs staves, and the rest of the piece only has a treble stave, that would save a lot of space.

Well, now I've answered my own question, so I'll pass it along for any one else having the same problem (which, as it turns out isn't a problem). For some reason, I wound up looking at the tutorial video on writing for barbershop quartet. I don't know why, since I don't write scores for barbershop, but the video showed me that crescendo already incorporated the feature I was looking for. The manual just doesn't say so. All you do is enter the melody notes as voice one. Let the tails go up or down as they want to. Then, to start entering your accompaniments, select voice 2. As you start to enter the next note, all the notes you entered in voice 1 will flip to tails up, and new notes you add in voice 2 will go tails down. Exactly what you want for classical guitar music. I just wish the "manual" said that.

I had the same question. I know how to change stem direction for an individual note, but it's a few clicks per note, and that would take a long time. I want to select voice one, and designate it to be all stems up, regardless of where the note is on the staff. After I've entered the melody that way, I want to select voice 2, and have it designated as stems down, then I can add my accompaniments in that voice. That would be much quicker than editing every single note for voice and stem direction. I also cannot see where Tony Devoe found stems in the menu and bars above and below.

Is there a way to reset the bar numbers back to one, part way through a piece? I'm putting together a medley of by copying the component songs (They're all public domain, btw). For the first component, I could keep track of where I am by making sure the bar lines on my project corresponded to those on the printed page. Then I added a couple of transition bars, and started entering the second component song. It would be much easier if I could re-start the bar numbers back to one at that point. Otherwise i have to do a bunch of arithmetic to ensure I'm in the place I think I am. I know it's not complicated arithmetic, but it's one more thing to keep track of, and I confuse easily.

The weird thing is I sometimes get phrase marks when I don't want them! Case in point, I tried to enter an A, but as soon as I try to drop it on, I get a phrase mark going back to an A-sharp four measures back. If I drag the note up or down as little as a semi-tone, the phrase mark disappears, but when I bring at back to the A line, back it comes. The only way I got around it was to delete the bar at the beginning and end of the "phrase", then insert 2 new blank bars and re-enter the notes. Has anyone else experienced anything like that?