Hello, I have a problem with this song. When I play it on BIAB 2017 everything is ok (112 bars), but when I export the audio, the song is 664 bars long!
To create this song I wrote the chords then I double clicked on the left of the chord to set up the verses (blue) and choruses (green) . Then I set the begin to 1 and the end on 110. The structure should be 1-16 verse, 17-32 chorus, 33-48 verse, 49-64 chorus, 73-80 verse, 81-112 chorus/ending.
As I wrote, when I press play everything is ok, but when I export audio, the song is 664 bars! Please could you help me to fix this? The manual is very big, so I don’t know where to look for a solution.
If you have a look to the right of '110', beside your song's title, there is a '3' (#1 on the image below). This is telling BIAB to play multiple choruses of your song.
In BIAB terminology, a 'chorus' means 'once through the entire song'.
In addition to this, you also have repeats set up to play three times (see bar #110). This means that between the number of choruses and repeats, the song is playing through 6 times (hence the 664 when it's generated).
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Click on the '3' (#1 on image below).
Set it to '1' (#2).
Save your song with a new name so that if you ever want to get back to the original, it's as easy as loading the original file.
Generate.
Because the song has 3 repeats, it will now be around 334 bars long.
Do you want to delete the repeats as well? If so, there's a section in the PDF manual about adding and removing repeats and first and second endings. The page number is in the front index. It's also possible to seach a PDF so try searching for 'repeat'.
Lastly, under "Help | Help Index" search for 'repeats' (without the quote marks).
THANK YOU VERY MUCH NOEL!!!! You opened me an entire world, because I finally understand the particular meaning of "chorus" in BIAB, that was the key!I followed your explanation and now the song has the right lenght.
In Biab "chorus" has a different meaning than pop or songwriting books. I paste from page 101 of manual:
"Note: We use the term “chorus” as commonly used in Jazz music. A chorus therefore means once through the entire form of the song. A typical length of a chorus is 32 bars. A song may have the form AABA where the A sections are verses and the B section is the bridge. This entire form AABA is called one chorus."
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