Arrangement sections

Start with ordinary sections

Most songs only need ordinary sections such as Intro, Verse and Chorus. Each has a name, a duration, and the lyrics or other layers that belong there.

1. Choose Edit for the arrangement. Select a section using its name above the overview or in the vertical section bar.
2. Set the name and duration, then enter its lyrics. Plain lines are evenly spaced; duration | text gives a lyric block a musical duration. A duration with no text creates a rest.
3. Use Add section at the insertion point to start a blank section or reuse an earlier one. Keep the ordinary section unless its timing changes partway through.

The whole song stays in order while you edit. Playback uses the same overview, section bar and layer columns.

Copies and linked sections

Use a copy when a repeated section needs its own changes. Use a linked section when it should keep following the original section's content and timing.

• Blank section starts with an empty name and no content.
• Copy section duplicates the chosen section's timing spans and layers. Editing either copy does not change the other.
• Linked section follows an earlier independent section, including every timing span and layer. It shows the source and has no local editing fields or timing overrides.

Go to source to edit all linked occurrences together. Choose Make independent copy when this occurrence needs its own edits.

A linked section stays after its source. Before removing or splitting a source used elsewhere, make its linked occurrences independent. A linked section cannot itself be another link's source.

Links apply within the arrangement you are editing. Saving updates that arrangement and keeps its earlier saves in internal history. Make a copy to experiment independently.

Names and occurrence numbers

Give a section a name such as Verse. If that name appears more than once, the reader adds numbers in song order: Verse 1, Verse 2. A unique name needs no number.

Numbers you type yourself are preserved. Use automatic numbering only when you want Wewamo to manage those occurrence numbers for you. Section names may use up to 24 characters; a trailing occurrence number does not count.

Timing spans

Use timing spans for a tempo or time-signature change inside one section. The reader still shows one Chorus, while you edit its successive spans separately.

1. Choose Add a timing span below the section's layer editors. Existing duration and content stay together as span 1. An empty span is added after it.
2. Set the new span's duration and override only the tempo or time signature that changes. Adding a span extends the section; it does not automatically split existing lyrics.
3. Enter the lyrics and other layer content that belong in this span. Add another span when the next timing change begins.

Example: the arrangement uses 120 BPM and 4/4. A Chorus has four ordinary bars, a one-bar break at 108 BPM in 7/8, then four ordinary bars. Only span 2 needs timing overrides.

Lyrics and other layers start from their own span's beginning and must fit its duration. Write material after the break in span 3. During playback the spans form one continuous visible section.

Already made the timing change as a separate section? Use Join previous section to attach it as a span. Its content and duration stay intact.

Make separate section promotes one span without moving its content. Remaining neighbouring spans stay together; a single remaining span becomes an ordinary section. Make all spans separate sections separates the whole group.

The span's menu contains Move earlier, Move later and removal. These affect the complete span, including its timing and every layer.