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Thanks for the reply Matt. Sorry, I'm still a little lost...I understand how I would get the chord on the "and" of 4, by pushing the first chord of the next bar, but how do I get the rest on the 1 of the current bar? I'm trying to get all 4 chords to play only on the "ands" and all the downbeats to be rests. If I push, it seems like I get the opposite.



Ok, more specifically, here's how to do it. Remember you are limited in BIAB to four chords per bar. The placement of those chords determines not only where they are, but also where they are not (rests). So, instead of trying to think of it as putting rests on the downbeat, it may be more helpful to think of it as putting chords on the upbeat. The exception is the first chord, on 'one-and', since you need a rest on beat one.

Let's say that the measure you are trying to enter has three Dm chords and then a G7 chord. Given that it's a Latin style, these chords are probably shots. The first chord is to appear on 'one-and', after a rest of an eighth note. Start by entering a comma to get you into the second beat (with no chord on the first beat), and then enter a caret followed by Dm.. to cause the Dm to advance (push) one eighth note earlier, into the 'and' of one.

The whole bar would look like this:

,^Dm..    ^Dm..,^Dm.. (Note that the space after the first part represents skipping to the second half of the chord entry cell)

and the next bar would start with

^G7..

Remember, the pushes work 'backwards'. A push on beat two means it plays earlier, on the 'and' of beat one.

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