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How to end song at `fine` but after repeating?
All you have to do is change the “ DC al fine” to “DC al fine (with repeat)” to be clear of your intentions.
One issue you might encounter is that in bar 4 a DC in a bar with a repeat sign may ...
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How to indicate articulation on only one volte of a repeat?
Place the articulation in square brackets with a note ‘staccato 2nd X only’. If it gets messy or cluttered, write it out.
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How can I use different types of repeats in my lead sheet?
This is rather more complex than the linked question, and I think deserves an answer. Here's a solution.
And here's an alternative solution. Just notate each section once, in order ABCD. Write over ...
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Repeat sign without a match
It's sloppy notation. There is a convention that an End Repeat may reflect to the beginning of the piece without there having to be an explicit Start Repeat there. There is no such convention for ...
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Repeat sign without a match
There's an implied repeat sign at the end of the piece, so the entire second section is played twice. As in this recording by Dale Harris:
This is similar to the ...
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How do folk musicians count repeats?
I've played a lot of contra dance music, which is a form of folk music for folk dances.
I'm guessing you don't have 32 bars divided into two parts composed of two 8-bar chunks drilled into your brain, ...
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How to place a number by a sustain bracket to indicate variation in lilypond?
Fret not! Lilypond does allow us to take a lot of control of what to print, easily enabling us to do such annotations:
\version "2.24"
\language "english"
% Return a stencil ...
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Lilypond: Single bar, multiple repeat
As far as I know this is currently not possible. You can trick MM rests to allow for such an behaviour, like this:
\version "2.22"
#(define (slash height slope thickness)
(let* ((wid (/ ...
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Can (Dal) Segno and (Dal) Segno Segno appear on the same bar?
Are you stuck with using Guitar Pro as your notation program? What you showed us is impossible to sightread. It could be acceptable as a 'reference guide' to a song where the player has previously ...
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Can (Dal) Segno and (Dal) Segno Segno appear on the same bar?
The double D.S. is confusing. The first thing the player sees at M.15 is "D.S.S. al coda". They take that and go to the coda, so they never reach the second D.S.
See my answer to your ...
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Meaning of :/: with a 2 above
It's a 2-bar repeat. You'll see the 4-bar variety as well, occasionally 8-bar.
There's a variation of the same idea sometimes used in drum parts. Write one bar of the groove, then 'play x' or 'play ...
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Interpreting the repeat signs in Handel's passacaglia (HWV 432)
In the IMSLP Urtext edition (ed. Max Schneider and Rudolf Steglich), the initial double-repeat sign is accompanied by a footnote:
Im Originaldruck nur vor und nach diesem ersten und dem Schluss-...
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How to notate two nested repeat loops (||: and :||) that finish on the same repeat finish sign :||?
It's easy to write this in a way that a human player can read (and at least some notation programs, for example Finale).
The repeat in measure 15 is ambiguous. Leave it out and write "2x D.S. (...
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How to notate two nested repeat loops (||: and :||) that finish on the same repeat finish sign :||?
The simplest solution would be to include a note at the beginning of the A section to the effect of "Play A B A B A; take all repeats."
However, since the score must work both written and ...
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Formatting First and Second Repetitions
If your music always has four-bar phrases you need to find a way to compensate for the two extra measures (and without adding ugly blank space). You have three possibilities:
have two systems with 5 ...
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Lilypond: Lyrics variants for repeated music
You can achieve the structure you want (lyric verses stacked when folded, and yet under the correct measures when unfolded) by using the command: \unfolded. This command is used to specify how a ...
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Simple repeat notification
While the answer provided by Aaron is kind of correct, I don't recommend following it. This is not a standard practice. See, for example Mozart's Rondo from Horn Concerto in Eb, K495, https://dme....
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