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There's probably a bit more to it than that for which the O/P is trying to produce.
Besides Spaces, Rests, etc, there's also a Musical Pause - which is neither a ritard nor a rest





You show a Hold and call it a Pause. Fermata over a Quarter Note. Hard to "pause" if there's a note playing.

There is a thing called a "Grand Pause" that is used in orchestral musics mostly, where a Conductor is available to direct the start and stop and start again. But that is not typically a thing done to a tempo.

More importantly, if you had listened to the YouTube example of Eva Cassidy singing the target song, you would have or should have heard that there is no pause in the Intro, only a Ritard over the last two beats of the Intro.

There may be someone else's version of the song out there that has a Grand Pause in the Intro, I listened to three other offerings on Youtube but found no ritard or pause in their Intros, so went with the Eva Cassidy version. Only the OP can clear that one up by telling us whose recording they reference. I thought the odds are pretty in favor of Eva's.


--Mac

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