The way I do it is to use the "rest" feature of BIAB. You can put a "dot" (period) after a chord to signify a REST and then indicate which instruments it does NOT apply to.

Given that you have:

Drums (d)
Bass (b)
Guitar (g)
Strings (s)
Piano (p)

You can now start off your song playing everything except drums, so the chord would look like:

C.bpgs - which means, rest all instruments except Bass, Piano, Guitar, and Strings (or in other words, just rest the drums).

Then, when you are ready for the drums to come in, just enter a chord normally (so all instruments play). You can put that chord in a couple of beats before the verse starts, and I think that will give you the feel you want. So it might look like:

|| C.bpgs |    || F.bpgs |    || G.bpgs |    || C.bpgs | G    || [VERSE STARTS HERE]

The drums will join the rest of the instruments and come in on the last G chord, 2 beats before the verse starts.

I hope that made sense. Look up "Rests, Shots, and Holds" in the help file to get more information on how to use this feature (shots and holds work similarly).

John

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