Making notation?

[Brandon]

Hello there!

Well i had been wondering, what software usually people use to transpose into shamisen notation?
I need to get some Christmas songs and haven’t found any notation, so seems i need to transpose any help are always welcome​:revolving_hearts:

[Patrick_Younes]

Hi. Musescore ! There is a beta version for shamisen. You will find a link somewhere in the forum !

[Francesco]

Hello. I use Frescobaldi, the GUI for Lylipond. You should include the addon written by Paul Battley for shamisen notation. You find It on GitHub or on his blog po-ru.com

[threedaymonk]

Here’s a direct link: https://github.com/threedaymonk/lilypond-shamisen

[Monke]

Musescore Shamisen Font

(To run the program: win32install→bin→MuseScore.exe) Examples & templates: Hello, Since some months, I’m working on Musescore code to make it support Shamisen notation; At first it was very inefficient because there was many glyphs problems (layout mostly) It’s still in development and I’ll submit it to the developers to let them see it it can be implemented or not but for the test version that I currently have, it’s very near the goal and it already can produce scores It allow to…

[MitochondrialInertia]

I’ve been using lilypond with the shamisen add-on “shamisen.ly.” It is text based but with the program Frescobaldi you can see what you are doing and it’s been pretty simple to use once I got the hang of it