What does '%' mean in a chord chart?

[danbromberg]

I came across the following chord chart but do not know how to interpret what to do with the '%' symbol.



Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Dan

[Danil]

It means keep playing the last chord

[Christian Miller]

I came across the following chord chart but do not know how to interpret what to do with the '%' symbol.



Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Dan

it means repeat the last bar

[danbromberg]

Christian,
Danil:

So F7 % % % is equivalent to F7 F7 F7 F7...gotcha'!
Thanks!
Dan

[sgosnell]

And a % symbol with two slashes in it means repeat the previous two measures. It's usually placed on a bar line.

[Donplaysguitar]

all chart shorthand

[ragman1]

I came across the following chord chart but do not know how to interpret what to do with the '%'

As above, they've told you the truth, that % means repeat the bar.

But, in case you've missed it, that percent sign is really a keyboard shorthand for the real thing which looks like this:


And, as someone said, more than one bar is like this:


And so on. The thing is the normal keyboard can't do that sign and it's not in Character Map so % is what we do!


(god knows what it is in Arabic...)

[kris]

This is correct.
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[citizenk74]

I came across the following chord chart but do not know how to interpret what to do with the '%' symbol.



Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Dan