I always used to have a problem getting the jump to the second-time bar and the ending right.Ģ: Use the little Start-End-Choruses box in the middle to set the start bar at 5 and the end bar at 36ģ. Let us suppose we want the following song form:Ĥ-bar intro, 32-bar song, repeated 2 times, jump to 2-bar coda which replaces the last two bars the last time through. Here's a BIAB trick I learned the other day - how to get repeat coda first/second-endings right. to insert at beginning' option, rather than '# bars to offset from start', which causes the melody to start at the nth bar of the midi track. In the import dialog box, add the number of bars in the Intro to the beginning of the track, using the '# blank b. Melody / Edit Melody Track / Import Melody from MIDI File Enter the chords in BIAB and choose a style Set the instrument to what I want in MuseScore (right-click on the stave and select Stave Properties)

My Midi file starts with 2 bars of silence, which the importer seems to remove, but there is an option to insert them as part of the import process. I hadn't realised that the 'Edit Melody Track' menu item also would allow me to create a new one. Melody / Edit Melody Track / Import Melody from MIDI File So to import a Midi melody track I do the following: However, I have just found the 'Importing Midi files' section in the manual. In general, I find the BIAB user interface plain hard to use. Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately there is no 'How To' subsection under Help in my version (2018 Mac version).

Biab 2016 melody menu