From the Replace dropdown menu, choose the first notehead shape you want to change.Select Use Note Shapes and click Settings.Select the font, and size of the notehead you want to use and click OK.įor Shape Note music or percussion noteheads, use Maestro Percussion or JazzPerc.Under Independent Elements, select Notehead font and click Select.The Staff Attributes dialog box appears for the staff you clicked. Choose the Staff tool and double-click the staff in question.You can assign a different notehead shape to each step of the scale. This technique is especially useful for Shape Note Music, where the shape of a note indicates its pitch, and for drum parts, where you might want all notes on the spaces of the staff to have X noteheads (cymbals and hi-hat), but all notes on lines of the staff to have normal noteheads (tom-toms and bass drum). To change all notehead shapes of a specified duration and pitch Click None and select Notehead, Accidental and Tablature String Alterations. To restore the noteheads to their original shapes, select the region and choose Edit > Clear Selected Items. Enter the number of times you want the notehead shape information copied.If the target measure isn’t visible on the screen, scroll until it’s visible, then CTRL+ALT-click it to display the Paste Multiple dialog box.

Drag the first highlighted measure so that it’s superimposed on the first target measure.Select Notehead, Accidental and Tablature String Alterations.The Edit Filter dialog box appears, listing elements of the music that you can copy individually. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts. Choose the Selection tool, and select the modified measure or measures.Change the notehead shapes manually in the first measure or measures.If you require a more global note shape configuration that can’t be addressed by changing all notes of a specified pitch and duration to a specified shape (see To change all notehead shapes of a specified duration and pitch, below), you can create the changes manually and then paste only the note shape information onto other measures. To copy individual notehead changes to other measures To restore the notehead to its original shape, click its handle and press DELETE. Double-click the desired replacement notehead shape.The Symbol Selection dialog box appears, displaying every character in the music font. Double-click the handle of the notehead you want to change.Choose the Special Tools tool, and click the measure in question. Choose Window > Advanced Tools Palette.You can also change individual noteheads to any shape.

You can globally define noteheads to be a particular shape on the basis of rhythmic value, position on the staff, or both. A notehead can be any shape in Finale, including X, diamond, square, circle, slash-you can even create invisible noteheads.

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