Is it possible to change note heads in a percussion instrument (congas, in this case) to be hollow (not a half-note, just a hollow note head)? I use this to represent the “palm” movement on conga drums; I could use the hollow-with-dot note head but was hoping to keep parity with the notations I’ve already written out, previously.
Please see the first note of the example; thank you in advance.
Add a new notehead set and call it Hollow Noteheads.
Add the desired notehead to the set (e.g. noteheadHalf) and remove noteheadBlack from it. (Optional: If you want a design that’s not available in the list, click New Notehead and then Edit Notehead…)
If you want to simply override the noteheads visually, then now you just need to right-click on the note and select Notehead > Hollow Noteheads. But if you want to connect this notehead to a playing technique so that it can be played back properly, then do this instead: