red bracket symbol?

Hi,

Many of the songs that I downloaded have pairs of red brackets with two dots (e.g. Brown Eyed Girl). Are these red brackets used be the player to control playback? Also, I don't see those red brackets in the Editor popup when I go into edit mode. Is there a keyboard sequence that creates the red brackets?

thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

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Originally Posted by daylate

Hi,

Many of the songs that I downloaded have pairs of red brackets with two dots (e.g. Brown Eyed Girl). Are these red brackets used by the player to control playback? Also, I don't see those red brackets in the Editor popup when I go into edit mode. Is there a keyboard sequence that creates the red brackets?

thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

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Hi daylate, welcome to the forums.
What you describe are the standard music notation symbol, section-repeat brackets. They are used (in pairs)to instruct both the musician and the player feature that the measures included between the brackets are to be repeated. A text notation (3x, 4x, etc.) can be added, usually beneath the last bar in the section to increase the number of repeats.

In your app they can be highlighted red (optional) to make them more visible to the musician. That is controlled in "settings".

Repeat brackets, single, double and final bar-lines along with other symbols are placed on charts using the editor, on the editor page, the symbols are not highlighted red.

There's helpful information here:
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...SARY-iReal-Pro

:))BOB

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Originally Posted by pdxdjazz

Repeat brackets, single, double and final bar-lines along with other symbols are placed on charts using the editor, on the editor page, the symbols are not highlighted red.

:))BOB

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Hi Bob,

Thanks for the very prompt reply. It may help other newbies to know that not only is the color not red in the editor popup, the symbol is visually different in the popup vs. what is displayed in the player (at least on the iOS version). In the popup there is one straight line with two dots. In the player there is a curly bracket with two dots.

Again, thanks for the help!