[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Sorry for the confusion here. The five-line drum staff is "pseudo-pitch", and does have "pseudo sharps/flats" as part of the drum instruments' delineation. In other words, the E is one drum instrument, the Eb (or D#, however you want to call it) is another. So on the five line staff, the notehead shape is different depending on whether it's an "accidental" or "natural." The bottom line is, that you can't change the notehead shapes for the five line staff (and it's written up as an improvement to give better feedback about that.)

What I had intended to suggest is that you just use the standard "x" notehead shape, pick a pitch where it shows up as "x" and use that as your rhythm indicator. For example, on a five-line drum staff with a treble clef, the A (next to bottom space) is a "x", and is nice and visible. Perhaps that could be used for your rhythm notation?

ttfn,
Sherry