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How to stop scrunching music when you use repeat last 4 bars

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:14 pm
by noteman288
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Hello. It's hard to describe this situation. Please see attachment. When working on a full score, if you want to have one part repeat the previous 4 bars, it forces all parts to cram 4 bars onto one line. Is there away around this, besides just not using this notation?

Re: How to stop scrunching music when you use repeat last 4

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:22 pm
by KJ_Palmer
It doesn't look like you can split the line with the repeat sign, and as your top two parts have a lot of notes per bar they'll have to be squeezed to fit, as shown. You might get a reasonable spacing if you can increase the margins, or scale down the staff size on the score, or use a smaller notes size. There's my suggestions, anyhow.