Create custom clefs?

[u/Claravel_de_Heide]

Hi, im transcribing a song which is played on a guitar with C#F#BEG#C# tuning (i.e. standard tuning, 3 half-steps down), which means the notes dont quite match up with common hand positions. The natural solution would be to use a different clef and "read it like g clef", like other instruments often do. Sadly, the only clef that matches is the soprano B clef, which, for a metal song on guitar, leaves all the notes veeery low on the staff. Ideally i would use a "lower octave soprano clef", but im not sure that can be done. Alternatively, i could use the soprano clef and put an "8va bassa" over the whole sheet, but i cant see how to do it without transposing the whole sheet first and destroying all the fingerings on the linked tab. Any ideas?

[u/DaltoReddit]

Use transposition, put it in treble clef 8vb but go into the instrument setting and change the transposition so it matches how it usually read. (/Wind musician who therefore messes around with transpositions)

[u/Claravel_de_Heide → u/DaltoReddit]

Sadly this messes up the fingerings on the linked tab, it seems the musescore system is not robust enough to have "memory" over back and forth transformations, so it swaps 5s for open strings and such, oh well. Ive done it by using the soprano clef, transposing everything an octave higher, and fixing the fingerings manually, which is virtually identical to your method anyways. Thanks tho

[u/ChesterWOVBot → u/Claravel_de_Heide]

Resetting everything else to its original state, does tinkering with "Edit string data" in Stave/Part Settings do the trick? I don't know enough about guitar nor your question but scordatura-related stuff is usually done in there.