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2.16 Guitar scale diagrams
2.16 Guitar scale diagrams
Sibelius comes with a library of hundreds of ready-made guitar scale diagrams for over 25 different types of scales, and you can easily edit these or create further diagrams to suit your own purposes.
Adding a guitar scale diagram to the score To add a guitar scale diagram to your score, simply choose Create Other Guitar Scale Diagram. The following dialog appears:
The Instrument menu allows you to choose which instrument your scale diagram is for: the
ready-made scale diagrams are all set up for a 6-string guitar using the standard tuning, so depending on the choice you make here, you may not have any pre-defined scales to choose from. Default scale diagrams and User-created scale diagrams allow you to choose whether the ready-made scale diagrams should appear, or your own user-defined scale diagrams, or both. Choose the Key and Type using the drop-down menus to determine which scale diagrams appear in the preview below. To choose a scale diagram, simply select it in the preview area, then click OK. If there was no selection in your score before you invoked the dialog, your mouse pointer will now turn blue, and the scale diagram will be created where you click; if, on the other hand, there was a selection in your score, the scale diagram is created at the beginning of that selection.
Changing the size of scale diagrams To make all guitar scale diagrams in your score larger or smaller by the same amount, choose House Style Engraving Rules and go to the Guitar page, where you will find the Default size slider. Drag this to the right to make all scale diagrams larger, and to the left to make them smaller. Be aware that adjusting the Default size slider also adjusts the size of any guitar chord diagrams displayed above chord symbols in your score. To adjust the size of a single scale diagram, select it in the score, then open the General panel of Properties and increase or decrease the Scale n% value. 135
Notations
Guitar scale diagrams are commonly found in guitar tuition and method books. They show all or part of a guitar’s fretboard, either horizontally or vertically orientated, with dots to show each of the finger positions required to play a particular scale.