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How do I end a song on the 1st beat of a measure?
All instruments need to hit on 1st beat of measure and ring out.
Tom Spallone
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You could do this with a held chord.
Enter the chord on the last beat with an ellipsis following.
E.g. if it ends on Eb, enter Eb...
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I ended my recent song post in the User Showcase forum on the first beat of the last measure. It was the fifth of a series of 5 stops. I created a stop by placing two periods after the chord - d..,d..,|d..,d..||d.. Four stops in the first measure and the fifth stop on the first beat of the last measure. You can hear how it sounds ** Here **
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How do I end a song on the 1st beat of a measure?
All instruments need to hit on 1st beat of measure and ring out. From the Help:
Rests, Shots, and Holds
Rests - You can specify any, some, or all instruments to rest at any bar. For example, you could rest all instruments except the bass for the first 4 bars, and then add in the piano for 4 bars, and then add in the entire band for the rest of the song. You may optionally disable the rests in the middle or final choruses (where people are likely taking solos, and rests are not appropriate).
Shots - You can specify certain instruments play a "shot," where the chord is played and then a rest follows. For example the song "Rock Around The Clock" has a shot on beat 1 followed by a rest for seven beats.
Held chords - You can specify that certain instruments hold a chord sustained for a certain number of bars. For example, you can have the bass and piano hold a chord sustained while the drums continue to play a pattern
A chord can be specified as a Rest by adding a period after the chord.
A chord can be specified as a Shot by adding two periods after the chord.
A chord can be specified as a Held Chord by adding three periods after the chord.
If you want the chord to play on the first beat and then ring out, then probably a Held Chord would work for you.
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In addition to the Held chord, make sure your song's length goes well beyond that last chord (Bar for End of Chorus, or the last bar of a Tag).
Turn off the automatic 2 or 4-bar ending.
One trick I do is to go many measures further on and put a 'stopper' chord in, like C. (C with one period after). This chord can be anything EXCEPT the chord being held.
Then I also silence the chord BIAB automatically places at the end of the song, by adding a single period to that, too.
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Hmmm ... I (Alan) learned something new here, along with our new member. Thanks guys!
Alan & Di
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