Adding more rules, makes less songs in smart playlists?

Every time I add a condition to a smart playlist, the song count drops, instead of increases, I want to make sure I get all of a certain type of song, and my music collection is far too big to go through and edit all of them.  There was a trick to this, but I've forgotten it, can anyone help me out?

You use match all to narrow down a selection with multiple rules, or match any to join the results of several rules together. Sometimes to get exactly what you want you need nested combinations of both options.
E.g.
Match any
     Match all
          Rule 1
          Rule 2
     Match all
          Rule 3
          Rule 4
Would list anything that matches (rule 1 and rule 2) or (rule 3 and rule 4).
tt2

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