How to Make A Canon

• Jan 4, 2025 - 14:34

Currently I´m working on school Project where I have to make a Canon. Is there a way to have multiple playbacks, where I can play different parts of the same instrument at the Same Time. So lets say The Song starts and at the 2nd bar it starts over but it keeps on playing at the 2nd Bar?


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No, that's not possible. And that's not how you write a canon. Indeed, although it's close, it's not how a canon sounds either; that would be a "round", which is a special (and boring) type of canon.

In reply to by yonah_ag

Ah, I had interpreted OP's question to be that the software would simply play the repeated parts, without him notating them. In that case,

Yes, you can do this.
1) Notate line 1.
2) Copy (Ctrl+C) line 1.
3) Move line 1 to Voice 2. Tools / Voices / Exchange voice 1 and 2
4) Select the starting point (e.g., the beginning of the third measure) and Ctrl+V paste.
5) If necessary, reverse voices 1 and 2 again (as in step 3)

Hard to say what the OP wants. It could be a Round as Yonah_ag has suggested. Or it could be like the stretto part of a fugue. Doesn't seem like a canon, however. And the intended result will determine if it's best to use voices on one staff. Or the same instrument on different staves.

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