Hi:

A little while ago I started using BIAB 2013. Beginning with simple things I have been learning from the manual, from video tutorials and from reading back across this forum when I hit a brick wall. Nothing better to help learn from than being stopped-dead by something smile. I've usually found what I needed to learn, or been able to work it out.

At fist it was easiest for me to write songs/chords out in linear form, then later I discovered the song-form facility to designate ABC sections and organise verse/chorus structure in to forms like ABAAC or whatever.

As a result I'm now getting a little more capable/ambitious which is good, but I'm running in to repeat-type requirements that ABC options can't always produce. As well, I'm hitting the 256-bar limit anyway because for some the auto-extended song-form becomes too long.

I am at the point where I need to know more about repeats etc, how to set them and how to use tags to bounce around a little more. I have actually spent a heap of hours across the last week just trying to find sections in the tutorial vids that deal with repeats/codas/tags etc., but I am obviously missing where I need to be looking. I've found references in the manual's index, but to be honest that's far from the easiest thing to learn from and I have yet to narrow anything down from there.

So could someone knowledgeable about these things please point me towards where I can find information that will help ...

I want to use the following as my learning-curve example:

Right now I have written out the chords for intro(I), first verse(V) and first chorus(C) of a song. The structure I need to achieve is IVCVCVVVVVVCC.

I could start writing it out in linear form just by copy/pasting the repeated sections, but that actually runs to 286 bars once I add the ending to it, so is a no-go anyway.

I did use the song-form facility and made ABC designations just to see if that overrode anything, however when generating the result BIAB didn't like me very much and froze, presumably because of being asked to do some processing that took it over 256 bars.

In any event however I have all the sections written down and filling just 56 bars, and I know that by inserting repeats and go-backs etc somehow at the appropriate points it will all play-through in the sequence/structure I want without the need for repeated entries ...

Can someone please point me to where I need to go to see a step-by-step of what I have to do to divide the sections and have them play how I want? I have got as far as understanding that I can put a x2 repeat after the chorus to get me to the "IVCVC" point, but I can't figure out how to then have it go on and play six more verses then two final choruses ...

If you can set me off in the right direction I'd be really grateful, thanks!




Last edited by hannay; 08/12/13 08:45 AM.