Yes. It's terminology based in jazz to my understanding.

In its default start up state, Biab will be 1-32-3 in the box Kent with PG staff posted earlier in the thread.

You will note in bar one there is a straight line with two vertical dots on the left side.

At bar 32, there is a straight line with two vertical dots on the right side and a small 3x.

This is musical notation that tells us our complete band in a box song will play bars 1-32 and then repeat two more times for a total of 96 bars. As you see, rather than show 96 bars, 32 bars can fit on our computer screen.

It is simpler to input the chords in a linear fashion of 1-96 bars and scroll down to the higher numbered measures. This also provides the additional benefit that bars 33-96 can contain different chords than the default setting where bars 1-32 repeat the same chords for bars 33-96.

Inputting in a linear manner allows us to separate the song format into more familiar sections such as intro, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus and outro.

Biab provides the blue, green and assorted other colors for use to designate the song format.

All you have to do to change between the repeating chorus format and the linear format is to change that third number to 1 and the second (middle) number to the total numbers of bars the length of your song ultimately totals. So your song project may appear 1-78-1 where the song (chorus) begins at bar 1, plays through to bar 78 where an end measure occurs to make a Biab generated two bar ending that has two additional bars for a fade.

Bar one always has a bar marker.

An example of a 4 bar intro into a verse would be to place your second part marker at bar 5. So your intro would begin at bar 1 and play for 3 more bars and then your verse chords would begin at bar 5.

If the first verse ended after playing a total of 8 bars, place your next part marker at bar 13. Noel96 posted a similar pictorial example layout earlier in this thread.

Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 05/10/18 12:15 PM.
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