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I'm finally trying my hand at backing tracks. I want to create a count in with the Bodhran from my Celtic tracks. I have tried all suggestions I have found to mute the guitar and bass and just have the drum on the first 4 measures. No luck .. ever. Need help. I have tried F5 and silence, Right Clicking the instrument and set to none, etc.
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F5 is the best way to stop an instrument from playing at a specific bar and restarting at another bar, or simply not playing at all. Go back to F5, that is where your solution is.
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This is not Single note mute, but does work nicely for some of my intro's. But it can be used anywhere in the music. | GMaj7.pg / / / | Am7.pg / / / | Bm7.pg / / / | Am7.pg / / / |This plays only two tracks piano and guitar. In this its piano on both tracks. Bodhran from my Celtic tracks Not sure if this is a drum, or intrument, but simply use the single track first letter as the demo above.
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"Breaks" for only some instruments
You can specify that some instruments not be affected by the break.
The coded names for the instruments are:
B for Bass
D for Drums
P for Piano
G for Guitar
S for Strings
To type a rest for all instruments on a C chord type
C.
To exempt instruments, add their letters following the break. For example, typing
C.bd
will put a rest on all instruments EXCEPT the bass and drums, or to put a held chord for all instruments except the piano, type
C...p
Let’s say you’d like to do the following:
- For the first 4 bars of a tune, play just the drums. (Bars 1-4)
- For the next 4 bars, add in the bass. (Bars 5-8)
- For the next 8 bars, play all instruments. (Bars 9-17)
- On bar 18, play a shot. (Bar 18)
- On Bar 19 resume playing all instruments.
Let’s do this to an existing song. Load in any song.
Here’s how you do it (for all these examples, assume the chord is C).
1) On Bar 1 type the first chord as C.d
This puts a rest for all instruments except the drums until the next chord on the Chord Sheet.
Now you need to type all chords from bar 1 to 4 like this. There is an easy way to do that. Choose Edit | Copy Rests to copy the rests from Bar 1 Beat 1 for 4 bars to Bar 1.
2) On Bar 5, type C.bd
This puts a rest on all instruments except the bass and drums. This has the effect of adding in the bass, since only the drums were playing at this point. Choose Edit | Copy Rests to copy these rests from Bar 5 to 9.
3) On Bar 9 to 17 we want chords with no rests, so you don’t have to make any changes. If you want to erase rests from that area, copy a chord with no rests to that area.
4) On Bar 18 we want a shot; type C..
This plays a shot on beat 1, and will then rest till the next chord on the chord sheet.
5) On Bar 19 we resume normal chords
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I want to create a count in with the Bodhran from my Celtic tracks. using midi Count-In and Metronome Options To set these options, go to the Opt. | Preferences dialog and select the [Count-in/Met.] button. Recording not sure you can use your own audio for a count-in in biab you could transfer the song to realband and add your recorded audio count-in
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Victoria:
Just to be clear on what you're trying to achieve, can you please take a few minutes and try this (I'm assuming you're using BIAB 2014)-
- open a new, blank BIAB song
- go to Opt. > Preferences > Count-in/Met. and UNcheck "Audible Lead-in"
- also set "Visible Metronome" to "No visible metronome", then OK, and OK
- on the very top menu bar, click Styles and ensure "Style is enabled" is checked
- on that same dropdown, select "Browse Styles with info"
- select this style _CELTJIG and OK
- in the chordsheet grid window, type C.d into bar 1 and the same into bar 2
- in bar 3 type just C
Now play the "song" and see if that's what you're after for a Bodhran count-in. If not, report back and we'll try something else.
Good luck!
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