Hi Michael,

If I understand your post correctly, what you are after is that you want to think of your song as a series of 'boxes' and you'd like to tell BIAB the order that you'd like to play these 'boxes'. If that is so, BIAB does not construct its songs in such a format.

You would be able to get BIAB to do some of what you want by using repeats and tags. The below link will explain those to you in more detail.

http://www.pgmusic.com/tutorial_repeats.htm

Essentially, BIAB works just like an orchestra score. It's basically a linear process. In an orchestra score, when a return to a section is required after a number of sections have been played, it's usual for that section to be written out. One important reason for this is that the musical 'seams' that 'stitch' the sections together are not usually repeated. That is, when going from D-section to A-section, the notes that are important links between the sections are different than when one goes from B-section to A-section. Such links could not easily occur by simply directing a performance to go from C to B to A, etc.

Fortunately, BIAB makes the ordering of sections extremely easy by using "Copy from ... to ..." command to copy and paste the sections into a linear journey through the song.

Hope this helps,
Noel

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