Repeats, endings and the road map
Repeat a section, add 1st and 2nd endings, mark D.S., D.C., Coda and Fine, and the player follows the way you'd read it.
A chart is a road map as much as a list of chords, and the player reads it the way you would: it takes the repeats, the endings and the jumps in order.
Set how many times a section plays with its − and + pill in the SECTIONS sidebar, from ×1 to ×8. The chart shows the count next to the section name and closes the section with an end-repeat barline. The last bar of the song gets a final barline on its own.
Select a bar, open More — markers · time · ending and use END: 1st, 2nd or None. Tapping 1st on the bar next to an existing 1st ending stretches it to cover that bar too, and tapping a bar inside it shrinks it. The bracket is drawn over the bars in flame.
When the section plays, the 1st ending plays on every time through except the last, and the 2nd ending only on the last.
MARK in the same panel puts a marker on the bar:
Segno- Where a D.S. jumps back to.
D.S.- D.S. al Coda: the first time the player reaches this bar, it jumps back to the Segno.
D.C.- D.C. al Coda: the first time the player reaches this bar, it jumps back to the top.
Coda- Put one on the bar to jump from and one where the coda starts. After a D.S. or D.C., the player jumps from the first to the second.
Fine- After a D.S. or D.C., the song ends on this bar.
Fermata- Drawn on the chart. The player doesn't hold it.
The song's time is set in its details (4/4 or 3/4), and changing it there reshapes every bar to match. A single bar can have its own: TIME in the bar editor offers 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, 5/4 and 7/8. Each bar shows one slot per beat, with a small tick on beat 1 so the downbeat is easy to find.
In this version the time signature shapes the chart only. The band plays four beats to every bar whatever it says (see The band), and the metronome counts four until you change Beats per bar.
Related
- Write a chartSections, bars and chords: tap a bar, build the chord, save. Changing the key moves every chord with it.
- Play alongThe chart, a backing band, fingering diagrams for this chord and the next, and a mixer. Tap a bar to jump there.
- Practice toolsLoop a few bars, let Tempo Ramp walk the tempo up as the loop comes round, or practise against a plain click.
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