[SCORE] How to make an unfinished bar at the beginning of a song?

Question

I'm working on a song and I'm trying to get the score right.
The song has an unfinished bar in the beginning; the song is in 4/4 but the very first note starts at the 4th count of the first bar. In the score, Logic automatically puts in a breve rest followed by a quarter rest (interpretation is on), but that's not what I want. At the end of the song, the "missed" notes complement the first bar (so it's in fact a 3/4 bar).
My problem is that I can't look it up in the manual nor internet, because I don't know the proper English word for it (it's called "opmaat" in Dutch). Online dictionaries aren't helping me either... Sorry for that!
I can of course set the signature of the 1st bar to 1/4 and make the last 3/4, but then you see the signature change as well in the score.I guess there most be another way to make an "opmaat". Does somebody know this?
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Jan Voortwist

Answer 1

{quote:title=Jan Voortwist wrote:}
Maybe a stupid question,{quote}
On the contrary ...!
how do I dedicate a staff style just to the extra region at the beginning of the song?
1 - Do you have a region that starts at the very beginning of the Track? Say bar 1?
2 - Assuming you have a region starting from the very beginning of the song. Cut that existing region at the Right Hand point where you want your 'extra region at the beginning of the song' to end. This should now fit exactly to the rest of the Region on that Track, and when you open the Score Editor there will be a continuous stave of music.
3 - This now can be treated as a discrete Region in its own right. Open the Score Editor on that Region and change the Staff style by going to Layout>Staff Styles
4 - Click on New and a menu will open with a list - from that list select Duplicate - this will give you the same Staff Style as that instrument that was already on that Track.
5 - Double Click the name and Type in your own Name ..say *Piano NEW* - then be sure to TAB out of the box.. Logic 8 does not allow you to change the name if you just click somewhere else. You can then make the changes necessary to that Staff Style as per my example ( ie no Rests)
6 - You will then find that Piano New appears in the list of Staff Styles for use in any other situation.
HTH