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Section editing in Arrangement view

Section editing in Arrangement view - Ableton Live Tutorial

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Section editing in Arrangement view

- [Instructor] As you work out an arrangement, it's likely that you'll want or need to add empty space, duplicate sections of the arrangement, or reorder the form of the song. Let's take a look at the time commands that are available in arrangement view and how they help make working out an arrangement easier. And let's start by taking about the loop brace. It's really a useful tool when you're trying to make selections across all the tracks. And if I click the loop brace, you'll notice that extending that selection. So, let's use it to delete this second chorus that was repeated her in the middle of the song. So I'll move the loop brace over to that area, and then I'll drag the edges so that they're exactly the length of the chorus, and then I'll click select the loop brace, and right click on it, and from that contextual menu I'll choose the Cut Time option. Now that's really handy, because it took everything in the set that was after that second chorus and moved it over and lined…

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