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I was surfing the demo songs and came across one called "Photographs" based on PNOMOOD.STY and uses several .bpgs chords, such as:
DMaj7.bpgs Em7.bpgs
I cannot find any reference anywhere to such chords. Anyone know what these are?
Thanks.
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They indicate "Rest All Instruments But..." commands.
In that instance, .bpgs means rest all instruments except Bass, Piano, Guitar and Strings.
For the noob, the best way to deal with this at first is to not use the keyboard shortcut of typing in the Dmaj7.bpgs but to instead RightClick on the bar in question and select, "Chord Settings" -- use the little Chord Settings window to find out what is going on there, or what you can do.
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Thanks Mac, I knew about chord settings, but hadn't made the connection with the bpgs suffix, and nothing in the manual. But now I know.
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See current manual pp. 76-78 or the previous manual pp. 59-60 for further helpful reference.
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In that instance, .bpgs means rest all instruments except Bass, Piano, Guitar and Strings.
And just for clarification, since drums are the only instrument left, ".bpgs" means that you will only hear the drum track, along with the melody and soloist track, if they are present. The dot command only affects the style instruments (Drums, Bass, Piano, Guitar, Strings) - the melody line and soloist line always play if they are present.
As Mac said, for newbies, it's best to look at chord settings to see explicitly what's going on.
The same rules also apply for "shots" (represented by ..) and "holds" (represented by ...).
So, if you want to hold all instruments except the drums, you would enter "C...d" and if you want a shot for only the drums, you would enter "C..bpgs".
Just remember, the the instruments after the dots mean "all instruments except".
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