Song is in 4/4. Every once in a while I need a 6/4 bar for only one bar.

I follow the manual - select (shift-click) the bar to become 6/4, then Edit, Song form, Set time signature for a range of bars. The dialog box comes up and I choose 6/4 and click OK. A short, red, horizontal line appears at the beginning of the selected bar, chord symbol unchanged.

But upon playback the bar I tried to make into 6/4 now leaves out 2 beats of the chords. i.e. i get 4 C chords out of 6 beats... The subsequent bars all have empty beats even though they are in 4/4...at least i think they are...

If I only specify one measure to be 6/4 must I specify the next measure to go back to 4/4?

Here is what I'm trying to achieve: dot = beat

|4/4 C . . . |6/4 C . . . G .|4/4 F . . . | etc.

Is there a more precise and foolproof way to do this?

What about inserting a 2/4 bar. Like,

|4/4 C . . .|2/4 C .|4/4 C . G .|F . . .| the musical result is the same....I'm in Country swing style...

Confused, me. Why is the chart basically destroyed by changing the time sig in just one bar?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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