Repeats & Jumps
More a question about music theory than Musescore ... I'm having trouble understanding how to write repeats and jumps. EG. I have a 16 bar song divided into 2 x 8 bar bits, say A (Chorus) and B (Verse) I want to produce the following sequence A A B A B A How do I do this with repeats and jumps ? Is there a good explanation / introduction to the subject anywhere ?
Many thanks
James
Comments
There is a section on repeats and jumps in the handbook. Go to the top of this page Support/Handbook.
In reply to There is a section on… by bobjp
Many thanks for that.
Have a look and tell me if it works for you repeat.mscz
In reply to Have a look and tell me if… by Raymond Wicquart
OK yes this works for me. Many thanks.
James
Another way: repeat-2.mscz
In reply to Another way: [inline:repeat… by Jm6stringer
Yes - I like this solution better. It makes for a shorter score. Many thanks. I think I'm beginning to understand.
James
In reply to Another way: [inline:repeat… by Jm6stringer
how would you add multiple measures, ie., c, d, e .... back to A?
In reply to how would you add multiple… by drummerMan
If I understand correctly, you can use menu item: Add > Measures and insert multiple additional measures into the A section.
In reply to If I understand correctly,… by Jm6stringer
thankx for replying back.
I have this feeling what i'm trying to accomplish cannot be done.
For drumming, many times we practice lengthy exercises, such as permutations. So each exercise (N bars) would always be preceeded by N bars of a time feel. The Time feel could be a rock, jazz, blues, etc beat, followed by the exercise.
So the map would be time feel, exercise 1, time feel, exercise 2, time feel, exercise N, fine.
So in your example, section A ==> time feel, and B ==> exercise. I was asking if additional sections C, D, E, etc are added, how do you deal with DC and DC al fine?
hope this make sense.
In reply to thankx for replying back. I… by drummerMan
If you look at the score from the reply in your previous topic (https://musescore.org/en/node/336425#comment-1147119) you can just add more "coda's" to this and end each one with another "D.C. al Coda" jump to go back to the time feel and to the next exercise.
Example attached
In reply to If you look at the score… by jeetee
Ok I’ll check it out when I get home tonight from work.
Thankx for replying 👍
In reply to If you look at the score… by jeetee
aaah yes. Another method to implement this. I had been using segno-ToCoda for the time feel and DS al Coda Coda for each exercise. So now you have shown me another way thankx for that.
OK, that leads into my question about looping using this type of implementation. Just unsure how looping affects a score like this.
Scenario:
select measures 1-3. select Loop.
Played as:
1 2, 1 3 without issue.
Possible Issue: After the 3rd measure is played, loops back to Measure 1 as expected but is played 4x and not 2x?
hope this makes sense.
thankx for your patience.
In reply to aaah yes. Another method to… by drummerMan
> "After the 3rd measure is played, loops back to Measure 1 as expected but is played 4x and not 2x"
The loop only kicks in effect after normal playback of whatever it encompasses is finished.
(loop start)
time feel x2 (normal repeat)
ex 1 x2 (normal repeat) [D.C. al Coda con rep]
time feel x2 (normal repeat honored due to the D.C. al Coda con rep) [to coda]
ex 2 x2 (normal repeat) [D.C. al Coda con rep]
time feel x2 (normal repeat honored due to the D.C. al Coda con rep) [to coda => would go past loop end, so not followed anymore]
(loop end)
So your loop starts and ends with the time feel.
In reply to > "After the 3rd measure is… by jeetee
ok I think i understand now. Thankx very much
does anyone know if there is a way to make an instrument not play on the first repeat but then play on the second?
In reply to does anyone know if there is… by ginger7574
No, but see #72791: Add a "second time only" option (For repeats, not Volta)