At 3:45 PM +0000 12/18/11, Lawrence Yates wrote: >Hi Ryan, > >No. This is straight out of the box. All the percussion lines are the >same. It's a characteristic of all the percussion staves. It looks like a >font issue or a notehead issue but I can't find a way of changing it to >just normal noteheads (the "normal noteheads" box doesn't make any >difference either.)
I suspect (although I have no way of knowing) that this may be based on a set of notation styles (mostly alternative noteheads) advocated by an International Percussive Society or some such organization. I've read something, somewhere about it. The problem being, of course, that it's a system that is neither known nor used by a huge majority of working musicians. *I* would certainly never choose to use it, for that very reason. I'm quite happy writing percussion parts with standard notation, and so is most of the world!!! And since I just sat on end-of-semester percussion juries I can tell you that I've never seen it in any music written by some very fine percussionists, either. It makes sense for Finale to offer it as an alternative, but as an unchangeable default, no, that makes no sense at all. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
