User manual

Table Of Contents

Playing techniques on page 813

Showing brackets on noteheads on page 729

Changing the notehead design of individual noteheads on page 723

Creating new playing technique-specic noteheads for unpitched

percussion instruments

You can dene new playing technique-specic noteheads for unpitched percussion instruments

individually, which are saved for that type of percussion instrument in your project. You can

also export playing technique-specic noteheads from your project and import them into other

projects.

PROCEDURE

In Setup mode, open the Percussion Instrument Playing Techniques dialog in one of the

following ways:

● For an individual percussion instrument: In the Players panel, expand the card of the

player holding the instrument, click the arrow in the instrument label, and choose

Edit Percussion Playing Techniques from the menu.

● For percussion instruments that are part of percussion kits: In the Players panel, click

the arrow

in the kit instrument label, and choose Edit Percussion Kit to open the Edit

Percussion Kit dialog, select the instrument whose playing techniques you want to edit

in the main editing area, and click Edit Percussion Playing Techniques.

2. Click Add Playing Technique .

3. Select the playing technique you want to create in the dialog that opens.

4. Click OK to add the selected playing technique to the playing technique-specic noteheads

list.

5. Select the notehead you want for the playing technique from the Notehead set menu.

NOTE

Leave Notehead set as (Unset) to use the default notehead set.

6. Choose one of the following options for Staff position:

● Below

● Line

● Above

RESULT

A new playing technique-specic notehead is added to the selected unpitched percussion

instrument.