musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Slurs in tab staff allowed to look different from the slurs in the notation staff

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Since Oct 24, 2025.

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Description

Your idea

The slurs in the tab staff currently look exactly the same as on the notation staff:

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We need them to look different, like this:

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Problem to be solved

We have different rules for slur placement in the tab staff than in the notation staff.

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