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.
Prerequisite
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The lower zone is shown.
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Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
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If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.
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 Guitar Techniques group.
Result
The selected notes are shown as dead notes.
Dead notes play back using the Muted playback technique, provided it is defined in the corresponding expression map.