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Guitar techniques
The term guitar techniques covers a range of techniques typically associated with guitar music, such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, and pitch alterations that use the vibrato bar on electric guitars.
Showing notes as dead notes
You can show individual notes belonging to fretted instruments as dead notes. Dead notes are notated with cross noteheads on notation staves and with an X on tablature.

Showing notes as dead notes

You can show individual notes belonging to fretted instruments as dead notes. Dead notes are notated with cross noteheads on notation staves and with an X on tablature.

Procedure

Select the notes belonging to fretted instruments that you want to show as dead notes. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate Dead note in the Notes and Rests group.

Result

The selected notes are shown as dead notes.

Note

This does not currently affect their sound in playback; this is planned for future versions.

Example


Figure 1. Normal notes	Figure 2. Dead notes