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How to create a "breathing space?




I've thought about the very same thing for a long time.

In the genres that I play in (I won't say "work in") blues, folk and country there are very often "breathing" spaces between verses or between verses and chorus.

And very, very often there are tiny little instrumental "spaces" also. (Think of the little mandolin runs in Hot Tuna's version of "Children of Zion.")

Sometimes, in BiaB I have entered one or two measures at the end of each "section" to reflect this space and come up with that jagged look.

And sometimes I just live without it.