Okay, found the time to hit Youtube and found Eva Cassidy's version of "I Know You By Heart" -- the only one out of three examples that has an Intro as described.

What happens there is simply a ritardondo or, in modern terms, a ritard, at the last two beats of the last bar in the Intro.

"Breathing space" is not a musical term. We have to be able to count at all times so that all musicians will know when to play and when not to play. In a lot of cases, Ritards are Conducted by either a Conductor or by one of the musicians in the ensemble, such that all will do it together. Ensemble being the French for, "together".

BiaB can do ritards but by the bar and not by the beat, unfortunately.

But, if one were to make that one bar at the end of the Intro into two bars, each with two beats, using Bar Settings, it would be possible to slow the last of the two bars, those two beats, by using the tempo percentage and entering a negative value. Or changing the BPM to a lower one. Then don't forget to do the Bar Settings again at the following bar to return the thing to the right Tempo or it will keep playing at the slower tempo throughout.


--Mac

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