I'm writing out an original song I recently recorded because I need to provide both the sheet music and an audio recording for college applications.
It would be okay just to submit what I wrote out before, except I added an extra measure of rest between the 1st verse and chorus, but used the original (shorter) transition between the 2nd verse and chorus. After the 2nd verse I transitioned right into the chorus (as was written); otherwise the 2 verses and the 2 instances of the chorus are identical. Unfortunately, this means that I cannot simply write "{verse}, {chorus}, {[1st ending: back to verse][2nd ending: continue to bridge]}
".
I don't want to write out the verse-chorus pair twice. I've looked for a way to include an ossia-like staff chunk showing the 1st (2-measure) version of the transition above the 2nd (1-measure) version of the transition, but it seems to be that floating two measures above one measure is nonstandard (and also not possible in the notation program I am using.
Is there a system of brackets or something where you can say, "Hey, the first time through, play these measures" and "On the second time through, play this measure instead"? Or a roadmap scheme that would work for this situation?
Here's the layout in a clearer format:
[forwards repeat sign]
- Verse 1
- 2 measures transitioning into chorus (pickups on count 4 of the measure after the measure where the last note of the verse sustains for 2 counts)
- Chorus
- Post-chorus type thing (currently begins the second ending)
[backwards repeat sign --back to forwards repeat sign/beginning]
- Verse 2
- 1 measure transitioning into chorus (pickups in the same measure as the aforementioned sustain)
- Chorus
- Bridge (currently begins the 2nd ending)
- Chorus
- Post-chorus thing again, but with a different ending
And a snippet of the transitions in standard notation:
Transition 1:
Transition 2: