Displaying Easy Note Letters in Noteheads

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Beginning music students may find Composer's "easy note" notation a helpful way to associate pitch names with note positions in a staff, such as illustrated here:

EasyNotes

There are two ways that you can prepare an easy notes part such as the above.

To prepare an "easy notes" part:

First Method for Preparing Easy Notes

Choose the Prepare Easy Notes command in the Part menu, and follow the instructions described in Wizard for Preparing Parts.

Second Method for Preparing Easy Notes

1.	Use the Select Part command, to prepare a part that has just one staff-- the staff holding the melody.

2.	If the staff includes both melody notes and accompaniment notes, then use the Split Melody and Accompaniment command in the Part menu. This will create a pair of staves, one with the melody and one with the accompaniment.

3.	Choose the Display Easy Notes for Select Staves command in the Part menu.

Composer will display the Show Easy Notes dialog box.

4.	In the Show Easy Notes dialog, select one or more staves for which you wish to display pitch letters in the noteheads.

5.	Optionally, hide the accompaniment staff, as described in Changing Which Staves Are Displayed in a Part.

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