Thanks Mac , I hope this clears things up:

what I want to do is vary my rests , shots, and holds in the different parts of the song. Now when I unfold the arrangement, I place my rests, shots etc., then when I hit play, still unfolded, the melody won't play those 4 bars, just the backing tracks will play correctly like this:

bars 1-2-3-4 Melody and all play fine

bars 5-6-7-8:

piano told to hold chord, all backing tracks play fine no melody.

bars 9-10-11-12: Melody and all play fine

This is unfolded, as I am placing shots, rests, and hold chords that this happens, even when hitting play button to re-generate the real-tracks.

I just want to place them to make things more interesting as opposed to the same thing every chorus. Hope this can be done.

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