musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Grace notes should be treated as their own notes and not just a child to a parent note.

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Grace notes currently can only receive their own articulation/ornaments, pitch, and can only be placed sequentially. This is problematic when you want different pitches played at the same time inside a grace note. If grace notes were made to be independent, things like having Ottava Alta and chords could be applied inside grace notes as well.

Problem to be solved

MuseScore could support notation like this:

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