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A '''bar-repeat''' sign (the percent like symbol [[File:bar_repeat.jpg|35x28px|bar_repeat.jpg]]) is [[shorthand|shorthand notation]] when writing down repeating bars and means that previous bar is to be played once more. Consecutive bar-repeat-signs will repeat the bar once again.
To indicate that the previous measure should be repeated in its entirety, you can use a '''bar repeat sign'''. You enter a bar repeat using {{key|%}} or the [[repeats menu]] of the [[buttonbar]]. MusiCAD also plays measure repeats (when used correctly). Multiple % signs in succession ensure that the measure is repeated the same number of times.


[[File:bar_repeat1.jpg|213x66px|bar_repeat1.jpg]]
[[File:maatherh1.jpg|measure repeat sign]]


Use the [[repeats-menu|repeats menu]] to enter a bar-repeat.
It is possible to place two bar repeat marks on the bar line by shifting. Move the second measure repeat mark to the left. In this way you can ''note'' the repeat of the last two bars. However, MusiCAD now "plays" the second measure three times, instead of the first two measures twice...
 
[[File:maatherh2.jpg|repeat of two measures]]
 
==See also==
* [[shorthand]]
* [[phrase repeat mark|phrase repeat]]


[[nl:Maatherhaling]]
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Revision as of 12:22, 27 February 2023

To indicate that the previous measure should be repeated in its entirety, you can use a bar repeat sign. You enter a bar repeat using <%> or the repeats menu of the buttonbar. MusiCAD also plays measure repeats (when used correctly). Multiple % signs in succession ensure that the measure is repeated the same number of times.

measure repeat sign

It is possible to place two bar repeat marks on the bar line by shifting. Move the second measure repeat mark to the left. In this way you can note the repeat of the last two bars. However, MusiCAD now "plays" the second measure three times, instead of the first two measures twice...

repeat of two measures

See also