Quote Originally Posted by reggoboy View Post
Nice work with that!! But not too bad for me as a newbie, eh? ;-) Thanks!!

So the magic is that you created a duplicate 2nd ending to ensure it gets there before jumping to coda. Clever.

The other magic is that you compressed measures, which is a nice option. But I'm not clear how that works. I thought there were 4 spaces because there were 4 beats. If you remove space from a measure, the player still respects the time signature? If you have 3 spaces in a 4-beat measure, how can you make the chord change half way through? Or maybe you can't?

A related question... That last Ab in the chart should be played on Beat 1 and sustained and the rhythm should immediately stop; the drums shouldn't finish the measure. I tried removing all the spaces after the Ab, but the player appears to insert an extra measure before hitting that final Ab. Thoughts?

Linus And Lucy - Combined - Last Measure compressed - Vince Guaraldi
Does this end like you want?
Linus And Lucy - Combined 1 1 - Vince Guaraldi


The invisible END instruction tells the player to end on the first chord in the bar the final time. It is usually used to avoid playing a written turnaround the last time.

https://technimo.helpshift.com/hc/en...-symbol/?p=all

My previously posted chart included that ending…..

Quote Originally Posted by reggoboy View Post
I'm starting to think that spaces = beats, but I'm not sure how the player parses measures that have had spaces added or removed.
Spaces often line up with beats, but spaces do not equal beats. They are not the same. No matter the number of spaces, one bar has the beats appropriate to the time-sig.

If you have a bar-line on both sides of one space, it = ONE measure (but can contain only one chord)

You’ll need to experiment to see how the player handles chord placement within multi-space bars.

When possible, I prefer 4-space measures, 4 across each system (line) for everything. This is provided by the 48 bar template.

It handles 3/4 just fine.
The player won’t work with some time-sig/bar-spaces combinations. The player will provide an error message.

For me, charts with multiple, random bar lengths are harder to follow.

I try to keep my charts as “square” as possible with the sections (rehearsal marks) all starting at the left margin.

Chart Layout Conventions
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...&p=301#post301

PLAYER CHARTS vs. READER CHARTS
https://www.irealb.com/forums/showth...5854#post25854

)BOB