Colored Noteheads
Hi, my name is Danilo Chaib
I am a cello teacher at the Escola de Música de Brasília ( Brazil )
To teach beginners, I always paint the heads of the notes with colours.
In this way, they can recognise the notes easier, as they are in that stage that they have to count lines and spaces to know where the notes are.
I am attaching the examples of the software I use for this ( Finale 2014 )
Once you have a document opened, if you click Crtl + K you will have the window for Color Noteheads.
You then select the staff you want the notes colored (apparently if you want all staffs you'll have to do the same selection for each).
If you click in Settings, it will appear another window with many options, even to choose which color you want for each note (there is an standard set of colored notes proposed by Finale, and to save time I always use this option - if you do as well, never mind do go to this settings page).
I hope musescore soon will improve its software to have this colour option.
The educational possibilities with this tool are enormous.
Thank you.
Danilo Chaib
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Comments
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/plugins#color-notes
A bit longer. The default behavior of Finale is already possible in MuseScore 2.1.
* Open MuseScore
* Go to Plugins > Plugin Manager and check "color notes"
* Press OK.
* Open a score
* Go to Plugins > Notes > Color notes
Done. Next time you want to do this, no need to go to the plugin manager again, the plugin is now installed and you can access it anytime in Plugins > Notes > Color notes
In reply to A bit longer. The default by [DELETED] 5
Thank you.
Although in this one you are stuck with the colors, i.e., C always will be Red.
I know some guys who think C is green and A yellow, haha this is true!
anyway, see the image below attached, for example, if G is yellow - I did this with Finale:
In reply to Thank you. Although in this by Danilo Chaib
You can change colors by editing the plugin
In reply to You can change colors by by Jojo-Schmitz
This doesn't seem to work for me. I updated the hex colors, saved, and reloaded, then restarted the program, but the notes are still the default colors...
In reply to This doesn't seem to work… by juriggs
Did you rerun the plugin?
In reply to You can change colors by by Jojo-Schmitz
I'd like to do this; I have keyboards for my elementary music classroom that do not match up with the plugin settings. Does anyone have a tutorial or resource available to help? Please & thank you.
In reply to I'd like to do this; I have… by TimNiemeyer
No tutorial, but a forum discussion here which includes people who have successfully changed the plugin colors:
https://musescore.org/en/node/243426