Cutting shape out of guitar
Hello, I'm very new to maya and i've got a question. I'm moddeling my guitar, and I would like to know how to cut out the musicnote type shapes you see below. Of course they only need to be cut out of the front of the guitar, not the back. I tried outlining the shape with split polygon tool and moving vertices, but that got very messy. Any help would be great!
By the way, the body of the guitar is just a polygon cube with vertices moved to fit the general shape of the guitar.