User Guide

Chapter 12: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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Repeat symbols are drawn at the beginning and end of the entire form (bars 1, 32 in this song) and “end” is written
on bar 33, which is the ending.
Bars past the end of the song are colored gray.
These form markers are present for every song, unless you disable them by Preferences | Display. These are not the
type of repeats/endings we’re referring to here however. The repeats/endings we are talking about now occur during
the form, and are the 1st/2nd endings, DS al Coda and other repeat types that you see on a typical lead sheet.
So, in our song “Miles1 Tutorial (no repeats yet),” we can have a look at it and see if there are any repeats/endings.
It appears from looking at the chordsheet that this 32 bar form consists of two 16 bar sections, with a 1st ending at
bar 9, and a 2nd ending at bar 25.
So now we’d like Band-in-a-Box to display it like that, with the first and second ending markings.
Since we want to insert the 1st/2nd ending on bar 9, we right click on the chordsheet on bar 9, and select
Repeats/Codas/1st-2nd Endings.
We then see the Edit Repeats and Endings dialog.
Click on the 1st/2nd endings radio button, and enter the following.
- Repeat begins at bar 1.
- 1st ending begins at bar 9.