[Harp-L] Band-in-a-Box: Endings and Song Form

[Elizabeth Hess <TrackHarpL@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BIAB appends a two-measure "ending" to your song, and it's a veritable 
computer game to figure out how to get it not to do this.  The answer 
is, click on the 'Song' menu (in the very top menu bar), select 
'Additional Song Settings', and then you can un-check the box marked 
'Generate 2 Bar Ending for This Song'.  Or you can keep the 2-bar 
ending, but ask it to start playing it two measures early, so that the 
song ends on the measure of your choosing rather than BIAB's.

You can inhibit this altogether by clicking 'Band-in-a-Box' from the 
top menu bar, selecting 'Preferences', and then un-checking the box 
marked 'Allow Any Endings'.

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My own question is about specifying what I think of as "middle 
choruses" followed by an ending.  So, for example, I want a 12-bar 
blues with a 4-bar intro (which I know how to do), some number of 
choruses with a turn-around in the last measure, and then one last 
chorus that  *doesn't have* the V7 chord in the last half of the last 
measure.

Is there any way to tell it something like, verse, verse, chorus, 
verse, chorus, etc.?

How about something like D.S. al Coda?

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When I get my mind around enough of BIAB endings and (if it's even 
possible) song structure, I'll write up a tutorial about that.  Unless 
someone else wants to do it and gets to it first.

Elizabeth (aka "Tin Lizzie")