Vibes & Jams (We Guess?)

Flow is literally how you stop copy-pastin' the same chorus like a bleepin' broken record. Write your sections once, then arrange 'em however you want in a top-down format. Wanna play verse one, then chorus, then verse two, then chorus twice? ZOMG, you can do that without writin' the chorus like five times. Just slap it in a flow metatag or use the Flow field in the Playback Clicky Thing & boom — you're basically a musical genius now.

How to Do the Flow Thing

Step one: Make Sections & name 'em. Then you can express flow usin' a metatag shorthand like this (srsly, it's that easy):

Flow: V1 C V2 C C B C C

Or if you're the verbose type & like typin' more, write out the full section names in a comma-delimited list like this:

Flow: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus, Chorus

OnSong's lazy & just takes the first letter of each word in your section name to make the shorthand. Which means you don't gotta use weird special names for this to work. If you somehow manage to have a name conflict (OMG, how?), OnSong will just grab the first section that matches the abbreviation & call it a day.

Pages & Bossy Instructions

Wanna throw in some musical directions & page breaks in your flow without muckin' up the actual song? Totes possible. Just put stuff in the flow that doesn't match any section label. Since your fancy instructions might have spaces & all that, use the comma-delimited method. Here's an example of addin' musical instructions & page breaks like you actually know what you're doin':

Flow: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, (Repeat 2x), ----, Bridge, Chorus, (Repeat 2x)

This'll spit out (Repeat 2x) right under each chorus. Those four hyphens? Page break city, baby. Separates the first chorus set from the bridge like a bleepin' boss.