Colored notes in score

[Lou]

I just upgraded to version 25 from 2011 on windows
When I put a G above the bass clef in the trombone part, the notehead is tan.
Please tell me how I can turn off this annoying feature.
Thanks

[Peter Thomsen]

Welcome to the forum!

Take a look in the sub-menu
View menu > Out-of-Range Notes > Off

By The Way:

You might also like to go to

Preferences - Edit

and de-select some of the automatic features there, like e. g.

“Respect Instrument Ranges when Copying or Changing Instruments”
or
“Automatic Instrument Family Group Brackets”
or
“Automatic Instrument Family Measure Numbers & Text Repeats”

[David Ward]

One wonders at what level of ability the G above middle C is considered ‘out of range’ on a tenor trombone and by whom. Even a bass trombone is occasionally (but rarely) asked to go to the C one octave above middle C in some pieces in the standard orchestral repertoire.

[Lou]

Thanks for the help, Peter.
All is well, once again.
By the way the G is "out of range" at the intermediate level.

[David Ward]

… …By the way the G is "out of range" at the intermediate level.

How odd! I've just checked the Associated Board requirement for Grade V trombone and it includes playing from memory two-octave scales in G major and minor (ie including the G in question). Does ‘intermediate’ mean something different in the US? Or is it just Finale? I might consider Grade V to be at the lowest level of intermediate. Grade VIII is the usual minimum requirement when applying for entry to a UK music college…

Some otherwise able adolescent players may indeed strain a little with the G; but ‘out of range’…?

Who decides these things?