I downloaded an MP3 of a Karaoke-version of something; ran it through the Auto Chord Wizard; and as usual, the chords it came up with bear no resemblance or relationship to the actual chords of the tune, but that's okay...I replaced them with the correct ones. I go through the tune and tap the F6-key to set the beginning of Bar-1; I go through the rest of the tune and tap F8 on each beat...Okay I'm almost done.

The song has a pickup starting on Beat-4 before the start of Bar-1. So, when the countoff starts I get the 2-bar count-off, and the song starts playing its pickup notes on that 4th beat. Which means that the whole tune is one beat off. It should count off as: "1...3...1.2.3.<start>", but instead, it counts off as: "1...3...1.2.3.4.<start>"

So, how do you get rid of the extra beat in the countoff and get the whole song to shift left one beat so that the pickup hits on '4' and the first-bar of the actual song occurs on '1', and not one beat off? Since it was rendered from the Audio Chord Wizard, I assume that the song is stored on the Audio Track.

The answer I got from the Yahoo group was:
(A: Under Melody/Edit melody it's possible to shift the melody in time. Simply shift it one beat earlier than it currently is.)


That "sort-of" worked. I used that feature and shifted the whole song -500 milliseconds, and that totally removed the pickup notes of the track so that it starts on the downbeat. But what I wanted to do was keep the pickup notes, and just get rid of the 4th-beat of the countoff. Is there a way to do that?

This is similar to the question about "getting rid of the countoff", except I don't want to get rid of the countoff--I just want to shift the audio track one-beat earlier so that the pickup notes start on '4', instead of '1'. (I should think this would be a common occurance.. Think: "The Shadow of Your Smile"...You want the count-off to stop after the 2nd beat of the second bar, so that the melody can start on the upbeat of '2').

I hope that all makes sense....Thanks!

LJ

Last edited by LadyJazzer; 09/25/09 02:28 PM.
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