Creating new playing technique-specific noteheads for unpitched percussion instruments

You can define new playing technique-specific noteheads for unpitched percussion instruments individually, which are saved for that type of percussion instrument in your project. You can also export playing technique-specific noteheads from your project and import them into other projects.

1. 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 list of playing technique-specific noteheads.
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 as defined on the Notes page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

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

   • Below

   • Line

   • Above