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Guitar rhythm markers.

Sorry if I`ve missed this somewhere along the line, but - is there a reliable method out there, of creating markers to show rhythmic patterns and phrasing for strummed guitar,  on the stave?    Much gratitude.    Stokey.

Re: Guitar rhythm markers.

Reply #1 –
In NWC 1.75b, just put in a muted note, make it invisible, and then put in a simple text entry before it, a forward slash with perhaps a blank space or two before and after it, to taste.  Align this text entry "with next note."  Copy it as many times as you need.  I'd manually add a bar line, and copy an entire bar many times, instead of using automatic bar lines, because the automatic will come between the text and the first note of a bar.

If you upgrade to public preview version 2, you can get a bit fancier, using headless notes.  This gives you the opportunity to have comping marks for 8th notes, since the note stem will be visible.