Skip bars for playback to test the sound of an arrangement
Hi, everyone,
I am rearranging a piece that has to have 10 out of 14 bars cut from an instrumental. Which 10 bars to cut are up to me. I'd like to experiment with playing back the current arrangement with the option to skip certain bars during playback to hear which bars sound best and which can go. I've looked around on the website but I'm not seeing a straightforward method of doing this without actually deleting bars that I might later decide to keep.
Example: Between bars 70-84, I might want to try how it sounds to jump straight from bar 72 to bar 81 (without playing the whole song through a first time and then using a Coda or Volta 1, etc.), skipping the bars in between to test the waters. However, if the sound doesn't work as I hope, I then have the option of trying another option, or creating a transition which makes sense.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
TIA, K.
Comments
"I'm not seeing a straightforward method of doing this without actually deleting bars"
I don't think there is one, but what is wrong with deleting the bars? You can put them back with undo (CTRL+Z) after testing the playback. For added security, save the score as a new version e.g. MyScore-Test.mscz before doing your experimentation. If it all goes horribly pear-shaped you can load the original version MyScore.mscz and start again.
Feel free to cut and then undo, which seems the most straightforward way of attempting this.
Another method is to add a D.S. to the end of the last measure to play and place the Segno on the first measure to resume from; downside is that this might break existing repeat & jump logic.
The other alternative method is to add a Volta over the range to skip and set the repeatList for that Volta to 0.