Hi All,

New to Band in the Box after a few years off.

Doing a backing track to Walking Shoes by Gerry Mulligan.

Tune starts off with a one measure intro.

Is there a way to show only 1 measure on the first line and have 3 blank cells which do not play. In other words greyed out cells.

For me to keep my place while playing along, I like to see 4 bar phrases going left to right So most "Standards" would be 8 rows of 4 bars or 32 measures in total.

Thanks in advance for any help to do this.

Yes, If I understand the question...
I am kinda new to BIAB myself, and not at my BIAB Pc BUT...
If memory serves in the Bar settings menu, you can tell each/all instrument to "sit out" then come back in whenever you like.
Or at least I THINK this is correct.
But someone will hop on soon who can answer you for sure.

What version (exactly) of BiaB do you have?

Later versions (about 2016/2017 ) allow you to place a new line for each section (part marker), which I think? is what you want. However, the shortest section might be two bars.

Display Options (1) sets it for all songs.

Song Setting (2) sets it for the current song only.

I have version 2016 (434). I will try these suggestions tomorrow morning. Appreciate the help.
Bob

I'm fairly sure it was introduced by that time. However, I just tried it and I found that I needed to enable the new section function in both places (Display Settings and Song Settings) before I could get it to work at all.

Make sure you set the Minimum Section value to 1.

Thanks for the suggestions. Tried both and doesn't solve the problem. What I settled on is to play the one bar intro over the second measure of the "count off".

Maybe as I get more fmiliar with biab I can come up with something.


Good on ya.

You might want to investigate "Lead-in".

In options>preferences>lead-in, you can set lead-in on or off. For BIAB, lead-in is a pickup bar that is used as the equivalent to a turnaround at the end of a song.
It will automatically be printed on the first staff, so even if you have 4 bars per staff, with a lead-in, it will show 5.
The other piece of this puzzle might be count-in, which is typically 2 bars of drum to set the tempo.

Using the two together, you can have the lead-in bar included in the count-in. So the drum sets the tempo and the pickup / lead-in starts in the second bar. There is also a smart count-in that silence the drum during the lead-in notes.

It sounds complicated, but it really isn't. It's kind of 'set it and forget it'

Are you possibly talking about part markers?

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Part markers are what are used to define / delineate the Sections. Yes.