Positioning a Segno mid-bar (newbie)
I need to have a phrase repeat from the fourth beat of a 4/4 bar but can only position the Segno sign above that bar and it plays from the first beat.
Any help appreciated :-)
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Split the measure, make the barline invisble (you want to shoot yourself into your foot, I hand you the gun ;-))
In reply to Split the measure, make the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. I have used Tools menu to split th bar and that works - I notice it also auto-splits the bar at the repeat.
I strongly recommend against this. By definition, those symbols apply to entire measures and that's how any musician reading that will interpret it., So half the band will jump to the beginning of that measure, half to the next measure (and thus skipping the pickup), and a train wreck will ensue as they are now in two different places. You should add an extra measure if necessary at the DS so that the segno can be at the start of the next measure as standard notation requires.
In reply to I strongly recommend against… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you. Yes, a friend who plays in an orchestra says to split the measure/bar but leave the line visible. here's what I've got - it plays back fine.
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In reply to Thank you. Yes, a friend who… by Rusty Roads
But if you do that, don't leave the preceding bar with a whole measure rest. With no other indication a player will interpret the measure as having 4 beats. Instead you should show it as as half rest followed by a quarter rest to show that it has only three beats. I would also probably make the barline dotted.
In reply to But if you do that, don't… by SteveBlower
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