Inquiry on how to do Repeats Segno & Coda within a Medley
Hi all - Our small band does a lot of medleys, and I'm confounded how to do a particular one.
I've created an abbreviated mscz file as an example with sort of placeholder music in it, the song GIY followed by the song MIOO. What I want to do is have GIY played first, then jump to MIOO, then end by going back to GIY and playing it one last time and ending.
The GIY song has a AA B A Coda "next song" structure. The MIOO song is just a simpler AA structure, you'll see text markers in the file that match this.
At the end of MIOO I have a D.S. al Fine to go back to the very beginning. In the properties for the D.S. I checked "Play Repeats".
Now actually everything works really swell until the first song GIY is played for the second time. What happens is the D.S. al Coda in measure 11 seemingly runs out of juice, it no longer works like the first time through and the playback head just sails right through it into the Coda.
I grant that I am probably not approaching how to do this correctly. To expect the D.S. al Fine at the end to make this work is maybe too big a leap. For my band members I can just put in copious notes which may be sufficient but it would be nice if I could get MuseScore to play it correctly so I could generate an MP3. Anyway, any thoughts are appreciated.
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Jumps work just fine inside a section, so you could use section breakes to separate the parts of the medley
In reply to Jumps work just fine inside… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah have never used section breaks before. I can see how those would really help. Thank you.
See if this works for you:
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In reply to See if this works for you: … by Jm6stringer
D'Oh! That works great, why didn't I think of that? Makes more sense than fooling around with Codas. I'll remember to use 3rd repeat voltas in other similar situations. Thanks so much!
You can identify different Segnos and Codas by naming them differently, so you could tell MuseScore to jump to Segno1 at one point or Coda3 at another point. See the MuseScore 4 Handbook at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/jumps-and-markers.