Bar lines, repeats, 1st and 2nd time bars, D.C., Fine, Coda, D.S.
A piece of music or section of a piece of music will end with a double bar line, like this.
If a section of music is to be repeated, the section will end with a double bar line with two dots before the lines, like this. The music should be repeated from the point at which you see a double bar line with dots after the lines, like this, or from the beginning if these do not appear.
If a section of music is to be repeated, the section will end with a double bar line with two dots before the lines, like this. The music should be repeated from the point at which you see a double bar line with dots after the lines, like this, or from the beginning if these do not appear.
Sometimes the repetition is slightly different, usually at the end of the second time it is played. If this is the case, 1st and 2nd time bars are used, like this -
Notice that in this example, we play the music in the first time bar then go back to the repeat sign near the start. When we are playing for the 2nd time, we miss out the 1st time bar and jump to the 2nd time bar.
Sometimes at the end of a section of music we see the initials D. C.
The initials D. C. stand for da capo, meaning from the beginning. In this case, we would go back to the start of the music and play until we see the word 'Fine', which is Italian for 'the end', or until we see a sign like this, telling us to jump from there to the Coda. A coda is an end section in a piece of music. At other times at the end of a section of music we might see an instruction which says Dal Segno, which means 'from the sign'. In that case, we should find the sign, which will look like this and play from there until we see 'Fine' or the coda sign (like this).
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