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Thanks Matt,
I apoligize for my ignorance.
The tune is "No More" Elvis's tune. The style is "Rhumba_G" not in 6/8 like indicated but 4/4.
In the 18th. bar it goes*** 1/4 1/8 1/8 1/4 1/4 1/4. The first 3 notes are silent.
Thanks again,
Walt



Walt, are those fractions depicting Quarter Notes and 8th Notes?

If so, then they represent 5 full beats, which aren't going to fit in a 4-beat bar by themselves, not to include the three Quarter Note rests you want ahead of them.

You've allowed but one beat for all of those notes.

Referencing this performance by Elvis on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwmnVgkW0AM

Forget any idea of 6/8 for this tune, it is straight 4/4.

'1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4 AND' - the "8 to the bar" thang.

Bass line is like a Dotted Quarter followed by a pushed quarter on 3rd beat, followed by a quarter.

At the bar with the break, no chords, it is the Melody, the part which Elvis sings that has the rest followed by the notes. "Darling I love you so..."

This is an 8th note rest followed by a quarter note tied to an 8th note followed by an 8th and a quarter, with a final 8th on the AND of 4.

The lyric, "So" from the above line starts on the first beat of the next measure.

This can be applied using the Mouse on the Melody track of BiaB in Notation Edit mode in the Notation window by first checking the "Rest" checkbox above the staffline and then clicking once on the first vertical dotted line. Be sure that the notation is in STRAIGHT and not Swing so that you have 4 vertical dotted lines of subdivision and note 3 per beat.

Okay, once you click the Rest on the downbeat of the first beat of the bar, just click with the mouse again on the second dotted vertical line, the "AND" of 1 and a loooong note appears. Notice that the Rest checkbox turned itself off automatically after the rest was entered, allowing entry of a note again. Don't sweat that loooong note you just entered, it will automatically change value to the right value when you click the next note. That note should get entered on the second vertical dotted line of the 2nd beat. Now you should have an 8th rest followed by a quarter note followed by another long note.

Click the next note on the first beatline of beat 3 and the last note you entered changes to proper value, which would be an 8th.

continue entering the pickup notes in that fashion.

The figure here is thus: 8th rest, Quarter Note, 8th Note, 8th Note, Quarter Note, 8th Note.

BiaB cannot do this as a Chord Entry. And I can think of no reason to do it that way, wouldn't sound too good and besides that, it is really a break with the singer doing pickup notes into the next bar.

Of course, one could enter the Melody on the Melody track in entirety and then invoke one of the MIDI Harmonies on it, which would make for chording throughout the Melody, pickups inclusive.


Hope this Helps out,


--Mac

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