{"id":33244,"date":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=33244"},"modified":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"band-box-make-song-endings-more-natural-hold-last","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/band-box-make-song-endings-more-natural-hold-last\/","title":{"rendered":"In Band-in-a-Box, how can I make my song endings more natural? Can I hold the last chord in the song and have it fade out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Band-in-a-Box 2008 and higher have a fade-out feature for the ending. This is found in the Song Settings dialog ([S] button on the main screen just above the Chord Sheet).<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, if you want to get a more natural ending on a song, such as a held or sustained chord, here is what you could do:<\/p>\n<p>   1.<\/p>\n<p>      Go to the bar that you want held (the last bar in your composition).<br \/>   2.<\/p>\n<p>      Press ALT-F5 (Edit | Chord Settings) and hold all instruments.<br \/>   3.<\/p>\n<p>      Decide how many bars you want the chord held\/sustained for. Type in any chord other than the last held chord (it doesn&#8217;t matter what chord you use, because it will be rested).<br \/>   4.<\/p>\n<p>      Press ALT-F5 again, and rest all instruments at this bar.<br \/>   5.<\/p>\n<p>      Mark this bar as the last bar in the song<\/p>\n<p>NOTE 1 &#8211; This does not work if you are using an automatic 2 bar ending. You can enable\/disable the automatic 2 bar ending in the Song Settings dialog (CTRL-N or Edit | Settings (For This Song))<\/p>\n<p>Note 2 &#8211; You can only do this if your song has a single chorus OR your song has more than one chorus and you have specified a Tag ending. If you have multiple choruses without a tag ending, you can&#8217;t hold the last bar of the song because the hold will be played each chorus.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE 3 &#8211; The Piano Roll window added in Band-in-a-Box 2005 provides a way of fading out all of the tracks in the last few bars of your song, or adding other dynamics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[36349],"storecat":[],"itemids":[2030,2023],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the In Band-in-a-Box, how can I make my song endings more natural? 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