musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Double barre chord and thumb fingering on guitar diagrams

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Description

Your idea

It would be very nice if in the chord diagrams we could add two barre on the same fret, and adding some sort of indication for the fingering with the thumb

Problem to be solved

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What i'm currently doing in musescore 4.5

Prior art

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An example created with the free website https://chordpic.com

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Research direction

No source file or test is identified in the issue; start by locating the chord-diagram rendering and related data handling. Done means diagrams support two barres on the same fret and provide a visible indication for thumb fingering, with both cases covered by tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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