To use Tamburo, Maestro Perc, or Jazz Perc for your percussion notation, assign it as the notehead font in each staff or as the document’s default notehead font. Then, take advantage of Finale’s built-in percussion libraries or create one of your own, so that notes you enter on a percussion staff automatically assign themselves to appropriate lines or spaces with the correct noteheads. For details, see Percussion. 

To change the music font of noteheads on a staff by staff basis

1. Click the Staff tool  .
2. Double-click the staff. The Staff Attributes dialog box appears.
3. Click the Notehead Font checkbox if it is not already selected.
4. Click Select and choose the new font.
5. Click OK twice. Your new font is now being used for noteheads while other elements such as flags and clefs are taken from the default music font(s).

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