Green: beginner bard, very novice question

[SirUlrichVonL]

I think I'm not quite understanding a basic concept. So, from all the bards guides I've read I should be able to play multiple songs at once in order to "twist". However, whenever I click the next song it says "your song ends" and the affects seem to go away. For example, when I go from Chant of Battle to Chords of Dissonance it stops saying "you feel your pulse quicken" and I only see "a blank winces". It would appear as only one song is working at a time. Are all of the songs playing and I'm only getting combat messages for one of them or does playing one song end the others? This is a reallyyyyyyyyyy basic concept and I'm embarrassingly not understanding it. Thank you for any help and clarity on this really simple concept.

[Videri]

So you start a song, let it hit, stop it by pressing any song button, then start another one, right?

If you watch your buff bar, you'll still have Chant of Battle for a while after you stop singing it. Once you get multiple songs that create buffs, you can practice maintaining 2, 3, or even 4.

[SirUlrichVonL]

Okay that makes sense. I think I was getting confused bc I was trying to track what was going on through combat chat. So, for a DoT I'll just see when it hits initially and not when it does damage every tick? Thank you, that's really simple and not getting it was driving me crazy.

[Videri]

Yep, we don't see DoT damage here. Bard DoTs last 3 ticks (aka approx 18 seconds), doing damage 3 times.