How to change notehead

[Zujo Suchanek]

I know it's probably a totally easy thing to do, but I simply cannot find how to change noteheads. I read through the docs, did the tutorials and searched in the docs, and on Google and on this site and I cannot find how to change noteheads.

Looking here:

http://akamai.www.berkleemusic.com/asse ... finale.pdf

But, he's using the full version of Finale and I am using Notepad. He says to use the note shape tool. And Notepad has no such tool that I can find.

Looking in the help docs, I see Noteheads under the Maestro Font. I want to use the Non Pitched Notehead for hihat, for instance. It says the hotkey is Alt-0192. But I have no idea how to use these noteheads shown here.

I feel like a fool posting what is probably a totally easy thing to do. But I've now spent hours on this and simply can't find anything that will tell me how to change the noteheads. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

[miker]

You can't do any of that in NotePad. You are restricted to the percussion setup that they provide.

You need to go to the full Finale to do everything that is described: change noteheads, alter percussion maps, etc.

[Zujo Suchanek]

Ah, okay. Bummer. Thanks for the reply.