Multi Repeat
Hi all
I am beginner wirh Musescore and therefore I am not too familiar with features and possibilities is has. Probably the answer is documented somehow, but I did not notice...
I have a song that i would like to write down that has Intro, A, A, B, A, A, B, Outro. I don't want to write part A several time so I need to repeat. When A goes intoB it has a different ending (using Volta). Afterwards I need to jump to the first vers
The example shows in the first line how I think it should look like and the seconbd line shows how it shoudl play. Unfortunately I do not have any idea how to get this done in Musescore.
Thanks and best regards.
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Overlapping or nested repeats are an area in which music notation itself is historically somewhat vague. However, the usual practice today is that after a D.S. all repeats are ignored, and this is how MuseScore interprets them. So bar 3 (volta 1) of your sample is skipped on playback after the D.S.; this is by design. So the result is Intro, A, A, B, A, B, Outro.
A performer would probably figure out your intention without trouble (especially if you have lyrics with verses numbered), but for playback purposes you'd be better off writing Intro|:AAB:|Outro. This, as I understand it, would also be more standard.
In reply to Overlapping or nested repeats by Seamas
Thanks for your quick response.
Do you see any other chance than |:AAB:| that is commly used in writing music and that is understood by musescore?
I'd say, don't think in terms of how to get it done in MsueScore - think in terms of how to get it done using stanmdard notation that othert musicians would understand. If it's something that is standard practice, then MuseScore should understand it as well, but if not, don't sweat it - the human musicians playng your score will, and that's what is most important. Writing out the |:AAB :| is very straightforward and should work fine. You could also try with a DS after the first B and a coda either at the end of the B or before if the second differs in any way. but that's a more complicated roadmap and more likely to cause human musicians to make reading errors than a simple repeat would, so is only do that if the A is extremely long so that writing it out twice would be impractical space-wise.