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How to do a Bridge

I'm using NoteWorthy to learn new songs in our church. Some of these scores are written with a Bridge (a part of the tune is skipped at say the 3rd repeat). How do I get these in and working in NoteWorthy. Thanks in anticipation Philip.

Re: How to do a Bridge

Reply #1 –
To work out how to change "flow" in the music, look up Flow Direction Symbol Command in the online help, and refer to the Repeat*.NWC files in the Samples directory.

If you're still stuck, call again.

Regards,

Andrew

Re: How to do a Bridge

Reply #2 –
Not sure what a 'bridge' means in your context, but you have all of the available endings, and also DC, DS, Coda, Signs, and everything else you need. This just takes some planning. See the sample data on repeats to get some ideas.

Re: How to do a Bridge

Reply #3 –
A general comment about composing software: Sometimes it's better to take advantage of the power of the computer and write the whole piece out than to try to economize on paper and ink by using the various encodings we've developed over the centuries to show repeats, da capo's, etc.

With cut and paste, this can be really easy. It also saves your choristers some headaches, as they don't have to flip around the music several times during a rehearsal or performance.

That said, I would be happier if there were a way to copy/paste all the staves at once, instead of having to copy/paste the Soprano part, then the Alto part, then the... etc.

- seb

Re: How to do a Bridge

Reply #4 –
Just a historic note of sorts . . . the term "bridge" mostly
comes from tin-pan alley tunesmiths who wrote scores of
scores a DAY and had a formula of 1. intro, 2. chorus,
3. bridge, 4. chorus, and 5. coda.

Not all songs contained all parts of course, but if you look
say at the old Benny Goodman piece, "Memories of You" you
find the format most usually followed by jazz and swing
players of chorus-bridge-chorus, and quite often you hear
musicians asking, "I remember the piece, but how does the
BRIDGE go?"

In this context a "bridge" might have been a "verse" which
preceded each "chorus" but a "verse" would be more at the
changing words preceding each standard "chorus" such as
"Roll me over, in the clover, roll me over, lay me down, etc."

For something like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" the "chorus"
would be the "Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, etc.",
and the "bridge" would be "Someday I'll wish upon a star, and
wake up where the clouds are far . . .etc."

Most of the jazz musicians I've ever talked with only know two
parts of a song---chorus and bridge. The main theme is the
chorus, and whatever else there might be, whether intro or
verse, or something else entirely, still ends being called
"the bridge."

Classical musicians for the most part don't have any idea
what comprises a bridge, or in fact what the term, "progression"
might mean either. The progression was mostly a standard in
Tin Pan Alley, as well, implying that the chords in the song
would follow the circle of sevenths just as surely as the
Spring would follow the Winter and so on . . . if you couldn't
ANTICIPATE that way, the singers couldn't sing and the players
couldn't play . . . and the songwriters couldn't SELL.

Incidentally, most classical music DOES "progress" along the
same circle of 7ths, it just isn't advertised to the player.

Sned

Re: How to do a Bridge

Reply #5 –
The special endings do not print out the way it should. The DC al Coda (or something like that) should be at the end of the current line, and the Coda should start at a new line. And the To Coda does not have a preserve width!! so you get a blank space below the To Coda