"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