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Well, if your into jazz, using the Chorus repeats is often essential to get the automatic change of style for the middle choruses, which typically swing a bit harder and add walkind bass.

Not really Mac because the change of substyle is also based on the part markers plus you still have the F5 bar settings. If you have one long song, every time you want that change put in the green marker. It works the same way and this has nothing to with a slightly different arrangement on a regen. You still get that with one long song too.





Agreed on the fundamental action there, Bob.

But I have *thousands* of jazz songs entered over the years and they are already entered as Choruses with repeats. I've got my own reasons for doing it that way, which include being able to quickly print leadsheets when necessary, in order to pass out songlists to others (I do that regularly, when putting together an all live act, or teaching, etc.) and this just makes the whole thing a lot simpler for me.

Also, song layout does not take as long as using the "One Long Song" approach.

I do have some songfiles that I laid out using the One Long Song approach though, which are created for my live performances with BiaB. Some are my own workarounds to situations such as long intros, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy as Zawinul and Cannonball originally did it comes to mind, where I want to play Zawinul's long Rhodes intro, so created it with one superlong Intro that does not sound any notes, using 'ghost' notes on the Melody line, all quarter notes at third space C and zero velocity to create a visual metronome guide. Using the Notation View and the Note Highlighting, I can create the illusion that I'm playing by myself and have BB come in with the rest of the band at the right time. But after that long Intro, the actual song is laid out as one chorus and uses the repeats for soloing time.

I guess my real point is that there are *many* ways to use BiaB and while everyone finds their own preferred methodologies, often is the case that Tunnel Vision or Myopathy, if you will, tends to lead them to campaign for the program to be made to work *only* in the way or reason that they personally use the program. I think that there should be room enough for all, sometimes a wish can be implemented without obviating or excluding other methods, eh?

--Mac

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