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This tutorial assumes you have completed Tutorial
#1.
- Double-click on the third Section (which opens it), then go up to
the Edit menu and select Rename. Change the name of that section
to bridge1.
- Find the Section Key Signature button (the box with the letter, next
to the up-and-down arrows) and change the Key of the Section to A.
- Now go back up to the Compose menu, select Chord Progression,
and click OK.
- One of the rows going the length of the Section is labeled "Chords".
That shows you precisely what chord is being played on what beat. Go
to the eighth Measure of the Section and, whatever the first chord is,
click on it to change it. You'll see an octave of a piano keyboard;
click on the "G" key (for those of you who don't know a piano
keyboard, "G" is the third white key from the right).
- If there are any other Chords to the right of your new Chord, click
on each one and then press the Delete key to get rid of it. When you're
done, close the Section window.
- In the Song window, hold down the Control key, click on Section bridge1,
and drag it to a point just between the fourth and fifth Sections. You
should now have a song six sections long, with Sections Three and Five
being named bridge1.
- Now, click on the "Play from Beginning" button in the Band
window, and hear your song. Not bad, eh?
- But maybe it could be even better. Close any Section windows you have
open, so you don't get confused (trust me, it's all too easy), and then
double-click on the very first Section to open it. See the row marked
"Lyrics"? Just above that, there's a row of long, slender
boxes, and clicking on one selects the entire Measure underneath it.
(Hold the Shift key while you click if you want to select more than
one.) Click the very first box to select the first Measure, and then
go up to the Edit menu and select Insert Measures. This will
put a blank Measure in front of the others.
- Now, click on the number 1 on the line marked "G/E" (Grooves
and Embellishments). A pop-up window gives you a list of choices for
what kind of activity you'd like in that measure. Highlight "Intro"
and click to select it.
- Click just above your new "Intro" in the Chords line, and
select either C or G. Then close the Section window.
- Double-click the last Section to open it, then go to the Edit menu
and select Length. The current length of the Section is 8 measures;
increase that to 12, and click OK. Four more Measures are added to the
end of the Section.
- Those new Measures have whatever Groove or Embellishment came before
them. We need to change that. Click on the number 9 on the "G/E"
line, and select "End". See how those Measures change?
- Now, this is the slightly tricky part. We have to find exactly where
the Ending... ends. (I'll be putting this into the FAQ, but I haven't
researched it yet.) Depending on the Style, an Ending will be from one
to four Measures long. Most likely, you will be able to look at the
Section and determine if you've got extra Measures after the Ending,
just by the variations in active instruments. If not, just click on
the "Play" button for that Section and listen to it. The first
logical-sounding Ending place you hear after Measure 8 is what we're
looking for. To give you an example, I've been going through this tutorial
myself, using the style "Last Dance". Its Ending is two Measures
long, so it technically Ends in Measure 10.
- Go to the Edit menu and select Length, and reduce the length
of that last Section to the number of Measures needed to include your
Ending. This will delete the extra Measures without a trace.
- Click "Play from Beginning" in the Song window, and hear
what you've created!
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