Pg music BAND-IN-A-BOX Owners Manual

Band-in-a-Box® Version 10

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Table of Contents

PG MUSIC INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 6

CHAPTER 2: SUMMARY OF NEW FEATURES 7

CHAPTER 3: QUICK-START TUTORIAL 11

CHAPTER 4: GUITAR STYLES FEATURES 26

Overview 26

Guitar Tutor 27

CHAPTER 5: CHORD SUBSTITUTION FEATURES 30

Chord Substitution Dialog 30

Chord Preview/Builder 32

CHAPTER 6: EAR TRAINING WINDOW 34

Launching The Ear Training Module 34

Chord Tutor 35

Interval Tutor 38

CHAPTER 7: LIVE HARMONIES 39

CHAPTER 8: NOTATION & PRINTING 41

CHAPTER 9: STYLEMAKER ENHANCEMENTS 44

Table of Contents 3

Guitar Styles with StyleMaker 44

Importing Instruments from Other Styles 46

Trim Patterns 47

CHAPTER 10: AUDIO FEATURES ENHANCEMENTS 48

Audio Edit Window Overview 48

Direct X Plugins 49

Save as Windows Media File 50

Burn your own Audio-CD 51

CHAPTER 11 : OTHER NEW FEATURES 54

SPACEBAR Functions 54

Half-Speed Functions 54

Copy/ Paste for Single Chord Cell 54

Song Memo Enhancements 55

Merge Imported Data with Melody 55

Play Style Demo 55

Song List Window Key Support 55

Brushes Remapping 55

Turn Local On at End 56

Master Tuning 56

APPENDIX A: STYLES DISKS #24, #25, #26 57

Styles Disk #24: ‘Guitar and More’ 57

Table of Contents4

Styles Disk #25: ‘Vintage Jazz’ 63

Styles Disk #26: ‘Classic Country’ 68

PG MUSIC INC. CONTACT INFO 72

PG MUSIC INC. MUSIC SOFTWARE PROGRAMS 73

INDEX 78

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 10.

9

Chapter 2 is a summary of the new features.

9

Chapter 3 is a Quick-Start Tutorial.

9

Chapters 4-11 and Appendix A describe the new features in detail.

The latest version of Band-in-a-Box adds 50 more features.

First off, you'll get
picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard, using your choice of
pop, jazz, country, or folk guitar chording. These are the

guitar styles

guitar chords on a guitar fretboard along to any song, and in any style.
There's also a
choice of applicable substitutions for any chord progression.

The

Live Harmonies feature

is stopped you can
There's also a
a chord sounds before you select it from the popular chord types offered.
You'll also want to check out the new
provide you with endless hours of chord and interval recognition exercises.

The

Digital Audio Recording feature has been enhanced;

harness the power of the popular

DirectX support.

easy edits and overdubs of your audio track…and when you're ready to let
others hear your composition, you can
with your CDR or CDRW drive. You can even save your composition in

Windows Media Format

your Website and played over the Internet --with great fidelity over a wide
selection of streaming rates.

'guitar styles'

ever. Then there's the "

chord substitution wizard

play harmonies that follow the chords you play

Chord Preview Builder.

There's also an

– styles that play and show strummed and

best sounding

Guitar Tutor"

, which can provide you with a

has been enhanced, so that when the program

This feature allows you to hear how

"Ear Training Window

DirectX audio plugin format with

Audio Edit Window

"burn"

, leaving you with a file all ready to be uploaded to

, which shows you real

.

", which will

now you can

to allow you to make

it directly to an Audio-CD

Version 10 also includes notation printout enhancements such as

Preview, Print-to-JPG
Chords-only

And much more …

People familiar with the previous versions of Band-in-a-Box will be pleased to
know that we have kept the same functionality of our previous releases. The new
features are optional and don't interfere with familiar methods of using the
program. All songs, styles etc. are completely compatible with previous versions,
so that you can upgrade without losing any of your existing work.

fakebook-style leadsheet.

(e.g., viewable on your Website) and a

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6

Print-

Print

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features

The New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 10 are ...

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Guitar Styles

from Band-in-a-Box styles, with strumming, picking, and accurate fret fingering?
You'll get them with Version 10 :
and picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard (and they sound great.)
These styles also play accurate guitar
or folk guitar chording. There's even a "walking guitar comping" style that plays
guitar which emulates the famous "Basie Big Band" jazz style. The "Guitar Styles"
play like any regular style, and when you view them on the virtual guitar fretboard
you can see exactly which strings and frets are used – so it is a great learning tool
as well. You can also make your very own Guitar Styles using the StyleMaker
feature, with options such as guitar style (Jazz/Pop etc.), strumming speed, picking
patterns and more!

•

Guitar Tutor

will show the chords that are playing on the virtual guitar fretboard, in your choice
of a jazz, pop, or folk perspective. The Guitar Tutor is a fun way to learn about
new guitar chords while playing along with your favorite Band-in-a-Box tune.

•

Chord Substitution Wizards -

Substitution Wizard" is a fun and educational way to perform or practice a familiar
song in a brand new way. This feature is very easy to use; simply highlight an area
of chords and select 'Chord Substitution', and the possible chord substitutions are
instantly displayed for you. For example, if you had chords such as "Dm7 G7
Cmaj7", a list of substitutions including the tritone substitution "Dm7 Db7b5
Cmaj7" would be offered to you for use in your song. There are also helpful
comments associated with each substitution, showing you why a given substitution
might work in each case (e.g., is the melody compatible with the substitution, etc.).
Or you can enable the "Auto-Substitution" feature, and the substitutions will be
selected according to the general pre-set preferences.

– Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar

'Guitar Styles'

voicings

- Use the new "Guitar Tutor" to analyze any song. This feature

Reharmonizing a song with the new "Chord

are styles that show strummed

in your choice of pop, jazz, country

•

Live Harmony Enhancements -

using harmonies has just got better. Version 10 offers
(chromatic, diatonic and dominant 7), so that the harmonized voices will smoothly
lead to the next note. You can even
you hold down a predetermined MIDI note with your left hand a harmony will
play, otherwise it will just be a single note. There's also a

Harmonies" even if there is no song playing

your left hand and single notes with your right hand. Then, the right hand notes are
harmonized according to the chord that is held down with your left hand. This
feature allows you to play along not only with the program, but with anyone in a

Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7

Playing along to a song on a MIDI keyboard

passing harmonies

control exactly which notes to harmonize:

new mode for "Live

. In this mode you play chords with

if

live music situation, perhaps to enhance a live vocal performance or when you're
having a jam session.

•

Chord Preview/Builder

- Now you can right-click on any chord to instantly
hear how it sounds, or use the "Chord Builder" feature to audition different chords
until you find the one that sounds best to you. In other words, you can enter chords
"by ear" --without having to know the actual chord names or any music theory.
This feature also illustrates the differences between various chord types.

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Ear Training Window -

musicians. Now you can practice your ear training with help from Version 10. In
addition to the common interval exercises (perfect 4

Ear training is an important exercise for all

th

, minor 2nd , etc.), learning to
'play-by-ear' for jazz and pop music is further enhanced by ear training exercises to
recognize common chord types (e.g., Major, Minor, Dominant, etc.). For example,
Band-in-a-Box will play a chord and you will have to identify the correct root and
chord type. Your score can be tracked, allowing you to monitor your progress.
Clicking on the various chord types lets you instantly hear the differences between
various chords. Other options include "types of roots and chords to use", and
"voicing types" (open, closed, etc.) – allowing you to customize the ear training
exercises for beginner through to advanced. Interval recognition is also
customizable from beginner to advanced, with such options as instrument type,
octave range, up/down intervals and more.

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Audio Feature Enhancements

- The new

Audio Edit Window

allows you
to visually see a Digital Waveform, and select, preview, and edit pieces of audio
with simple cut and paste commands. There is also support for

plugins

– so you can apply your favorite DirectX plugin to the digital audio track.

DirectX Audio

There are many shareware and freeware DirectX plugins available on the Internet
in addition to the hundreds of commercially available DirectX plugins offered by
top DSP companies. Rendered audio files now have the option to

'count-in',

and the size of a rendered file is displayed onscreen.

include a

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Save as Windows Media for Internet Streaming

. You can now convert
your Band-in-a-Box composition to a Microsoft Windows Media Audio file
(.WMA). These files can be highly compressed which allows you to make
streaming files (e.g., for Internet use) with good fidelity; with higher bitrates
achieving CD-quality.

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Burn your own Audio-CD

- Now you can convert ("burn") your Band-in-a­Box composition directly to an Audio-CD. The resulting CD will play in any
standard Audio-CD player. Note: this feature requires that you have a CDR or
CDRW drive.

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Printing Enhancements - The new Print-Preview feature

allows you to
preview what printed pages will look like by displaying them onscreen. You can
also

Print the pages to a graphics file

, saving them in the popular JPG, TIF or
BMP file types. Printing your composition to a graphics file allows you to embed
your notation in a document (e.g. PDF), or an HTML file for use on your Website.
You can select the pixel resolution for the bitmap for complete control over the
size and quality of the graphic. Each notation page will be automatically saved to
its own graphics file.

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Chords Only Leadsheet Display and Printout

- Need a simple fakebook­style chord chart? You can now display (on the Leadsheet Window) or print out a
leadsheet with chords only (i.e. no staff lines or notes).

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Notation Enhancements

- When a note is dragged up or down using the
mouse, the notes sound chromatically (every semitone). This feature allows you to
hear the note as you move it, and makes it easy to find the note you're looking for.
There's also an

on-screen ZOOM button

size of the notation. Other enhancements include

to easily increase or decrease the font

copying and pasting

of the

melody notation with simple mouse highlighting procedures.

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StyleMaker Enhancements

- Guitar Styles

with incredible authenticity are now possible in the
StyleMaker. You can use new macro notes to be played back as a jazz,
folk or pop guitar chord --using correct fret positions for accurate guitar­friendly chords. You can also specify what type of guitar patterns
(walking guitar - bass lines) and chord complexities (inversions etc.) to
use, as well as picking patterns and strumming speed. This level of
control offers you the ability to make a wide variety of very authentic
guitar styles.
When importing instruments from other styles into a new style, you can

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now choose which elements to import, such as 'a' or 'b', substyles, fills,
endings, etc.
There's a new option to

-

trim all

instrument.
There's another new option which helps avoid playing a bunch of notes

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near the end of a pattern, thus avoiding a "too-busy" sounding pattern.

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Additional Guitar Enhancements

- There's new Chord Soloing types -

soloing, new types of voicings have been added which emulate the great
Canadian Jazz Guitarists Lenny Breau and Ed Bickert, as well as the
famous 'open' voicings often employed by the legendary Johnny Smith.

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of the patterns on any given row or

For the guitar chord-melody

-

Six Channel Guitar files -

MIDI guitar performances for Rock or
Country involving bends and slides sound best when output on 6 MIDI
channels at once (i.e. a separate channel for each string). This mode is
fully supported in Version 10 so that these types of files can be played
back perfectly. The "Master Country Guitar Solos" files are good
examples of the need for this feature. Furthermore,
displayed in blue, and there's even an option to

of any guitar tracks and to

range

Insert Visual Bent Notes

convert the pitch bend

"bent notes"

can be

as a

controller event option.

Other Handy New Features include:

•

Pressing the

SPACEBAR now starts and stops the song

from the current
position. This is optional, the program defaults to working "the old way". You can
set this in Options-Prefs 2

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Hotkeys have been added to play at

normal speed

. Press "Ctrl –" to get to half speed, "Ctrl =" to get back to normal

Half-Speed, Quarter, Eighth, or

speed.

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Copy and Paste

•

The

Song Memo Window

now works for a single chord cell.

can now remain open on the screen throughout the

session.

•

When

importing a MIDI file

to the Melody track, there is now an option to

merge the data with the existing track.

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The StylePicker window now has a "

Play Style Demo

" option that plays the

demo song for any given PG Music style.

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The

•

Many Band-in-a-Box styles employ drum 'brushes-kit' sounds. If your

Song List Window

now has QWERTY keyboard support for scrolling.

soundcard doesn't support brushes, there is now an option that will correctly

the brush-kit styles on a regular drum kit

•

There is now the option to

program

•

There is a

, so that your MIDI keyboard can be heard.

Master Tuning

'turn local back on' when you leave the

function which allows you to tune your soundcard

or module to another instrument, and a

instead (by remapping the notes).

function to see if your soundcard

testing

supports Master Tuning.

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play

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… and more!

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial

Quick-Start Tutorial For Version 10 Upgrade

The full description of the new features in Version 10 of Band-in-a-Box are
provided elsewhere. This tutorial is a
Version 10.

Band-in-a-Box: Overview

It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of
Band-in-a-Box.

Explore BB Version 10

OK, let's begin to explore BB version 10

We'll begin the tutorial in earnest when we get a song playing with the new
intelligent guitar styles and other features. First, let's just look around the main
screen.

Run the main program and look at the main screen.

quick-start

tour of the new features in

There are several new areas visible on the main screen:

•

New Buttons for Version 10

•

New Menu Items

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New Windows

There are new audio features, allowing you to record an audio track along to
any song.

Find these buttons on the main screen.

Note: These are not visible at 640x480 resolution. You need to use the menu items
or hot keys for them.

Find the

section. (Or select the menu item

This is the
chords by mouse clicks. (Menu item is
access this feature from a right-mouse click on the chord sheet.

Ear Training

Chord Builder

Window button, this launches the new Ear Training

User | Ear Training

button, which allows you to preview and input

User | Chord Builder.

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.)

) You can also

The

Burn CD

icon (visible only at 1024x768 or higher) launches the Render
Dialog, which then allows you to save your Band-in-a-Box composition to an
audio CD (if you have a CDR or CDRW drive).

This button launches the

Memo Window.

The Memo Window has been

enhanced, stays open on the screen, and is sizable.

The New Menu Items are as follows:

Look at the User Menu and see the new items as shown here:

Chord Substitution Dialog:

This allows you to see a list of possible chord
substitutions for the current chord progression. You can also access it from a right
mouse click on the chord sheet, then pressing the Chord Substitution button in the
Chord Options dialog.

Auto-Generate Chord Substitutions:

This will automatically pick chord

substitutions for all or part of the song.

Chord Builder:

Play Current Chord:

As discussed above.

This function plays the current chord on the chord sheet. It

is most commonly accessed by pressing <SHIFT> ENTER on the chord sheet.

Ear Training Window:

As discussed above.

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The Harmony Menu has new items as shown here:

Use Passing Harmonies for THRU:

In previous versions when you played along
on a MIDI keyboard (or the wizard), and used a THRU Harmony, the harmonies
would all be based on chord tones, now you can use passing harmonies. For
example, on a C7 chord, with an Ab note, the harmony might be a B diminished
chord, which is a passing harmony.

Only Harmonize if Note Held Down:

In previous versions, every note that you
played on the THRU Harmony would get harmonized. By setting this new option
you can specify to only harmonize the note if a certain note is held down (the
default note is a C two octaves below middle C).

Real Time Harmonies:

This new feature allows you to play harmonies in real­time. Use this with your MIDI keyboard (while Band-in-a-Box is stopped): hold a
chord down with the left hand and play notes with the right hand. The notes will be
harmonized according to the chord that you're playing in the left hand.

The play menu has new items for Play Speed, as shown here:

Normal/ Half/ Quarter/ Eighth Speed:

You can quickly change to different
speeds. For example, choosing Play Half Speed (or the hotkey <Ctrl> "-") will
change the playback speed to half, and Play Normal (<Ctrl> =) will revert to
normal speed.

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The Not'n menu has new items for the Audio Edit Window:

The Audio Edit Window allows you to edit audio data, using copy, cut and paste.
You can zoom the audio in to the sample level so that you can see the actual sine
waves present. See next illustration for an example of an Audio Edit window
containing Digital Audio (wave) data. (Note the highlighted (black) section
indicating the section that will be edited).

The GM Menu has some new items as seen here:

Master Tuning

allows you to precisely tune your soundcard or module to within
one hundredth of a semitone (1 cent) "A 440", so that it can be in tune with your
acoustic piano or other instrument.

Auto-Send GS Mode On at startup

does what it sounds like it does. Some
modules or soundcards require a GS mode-on message to enable the unit to play
drum brushes. Enable this setting if you have such a sound source.

The Guitar Window has a new feature called

The Tutor

. This is launched by
pressing the Tutor button on the guitar window. By enabling the tutor, you'll see
(and optionally hear) Guitar chords played on the guitar along to any song.

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The Print dialog now has an option to view a Print Preview:

Another new option on the Print Options Dialog, called "Include Staff Lines", will
print a chords only leadsheet --without staff lines.

StyleMaker Enhancements

Let's now briefly turn our attention towards a few of the new StyleMaker
enhancements. These enhancements are of interest mostly to people who make
their own styles, so you can skip this section if you aren't planning on making your
own styles.

Enter the StyleMaker by choosing

The MISC dialog has some new buttons:

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User | Edit Current Style

.

The Guitar Macros dialog allows you to specify what kinds of

guitar chords you'd like to use (for intelligent guitar styles).

The Allow Late Notes dialog controls what happens to
notes that occur near the end of a pattern (you can reduce the volume of them with
this dialog).

The Options Dialog for the Piano, Guitar and Strings has options to set the
pattern to be a Guitar Pattern and a Guitar Options dialog to override the general
Guitar Settings.

Let's Examine the Guitar Tutor

First, load in a jazz song and start it playing (e.g. Old Folks.MGU). You'll notice
that the associated style (GARNER.STY) doesn't have any guitar chording in
it…yet!

Let's use the guitar tutor to show us what guitar chords to play during this song:

Click on the Guitar Button to open the Guitar Window and press the
button. Set "Enable Chord Tutor Display" and "Play Chords Through MIDI".
Select the "Walking Jazz – 4 note chords" tutor type, and Press OK.

You'll now hear and see guitar chords (and patterns of chords) played in a jazz
style along to the song. In the example above, the chord is an Eb7 chord and the
tutor is showing a common jazz voicing for an Eb7 chord.

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TUTOR

Turn the tutor 'off' by disabling the "Enable Chord Tutor Display" setting.

Let's Examine the Intelligent Guitar Styles

Load in the song !Freddie.MGU from the 'Styles 24' folder. This is a demo song
for the style !Freddie.STY. The exclamation point (!) in the name of a style is a
convention to indicate that the style is an 'intelligent guitar style'. This means that
the patterns on the guitar part will play with correct and guitar voicings on the
fretboard.

Play the !Freddie.MGU song,

open the Guitar Window,

and click on the G button to view the Guitar Track on the Guitar Fretboard.

As the song plays, you'll see and hear the guitar played on the fretboard --using
correct jazz voicings. For some chords, you'll notice that the guitar plays different
voicings on each beat (in a "walking pattern").

For example, on an F7 chord lasting 4 beats, the guitar might play "F7, Gm7,
Abdim, and F7/A", with each chord lasting one beat, just as a professional jazz
guitarist might do over the same 'F7' chord. This illustrates that the guitar styles
can play patterns of chords and not just the same chord for the whole pattern.

The !Freddie.MGU style uses 3 note chord voicings in order to emphasize

Note:

the lower range and to enhance the percussive rhythm effect.

Since in these cases the guitarist is usually fingering the 4
you want to see what the 4
the

Guitar Options | Show muted high note of guitar style comping

th

note of the voicing would be you can set this option in

th

note and muting it, if

(checkbox).

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Remember that for any style you see with an exclamation point (!) in the style
name (an intelligent guitar style) you can view and hear the guitar part played on
the guitar fretboard, as described above.

Let's Look at the Chord Substitution Dialog

Continuing with the song !Freddie.MGU, the tune begins with an F7 chord for 8
beats. Let's make that part a little more interesting by trying some substitutions for
that chord.

First, press <SHIFT> <ENTER> with the highlight bar on bar 1. You'll hear the
F7 chord played.

Then right-mouse click on the chord, and the chord options dialog will be
launched.

Notice the following new buttons (above): Preview, Builder and Chord
Substitutions:

•

The Preview button allows you to hear the chord, which is similar to what we

did above by pressing SHIFT-ENTER.

•

The Builder allows you to try different chords, and build up chords by

selecting root and extension.

•

The Chord Subs button is the one that we're interested in this time. By

pressing this button you'll now see a dialog with substitutions selected for the
chord progression that begins with F7 for 2 bars.

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There are a number of substitutions that have been identified. For example, the
first substitution replaces the 2 bars of F7 with a "Cm7 F7" progression. But the
program has also looked at the Melody of this song (which contains an 'A' note)
and commented in the Memo that this 'A' melody note is not compatible with the
'Cm7', so doesn't advise this substitution.

Choose one of the substitutions that you would like, and press the

button (or double click on the substitution). This will enter the substitution

NOW

to the chord sheet, and the dialog will show substitutions for that new progression.

Press CLOSE if you are happy with the Substitution, or RESTORE to restore
(UNDO) the substitution. Press
have made.

to UNDO all of the substitutions that you

ALL

Do Substitution

Now Let's Look at the Chord Builder Dialog

Reload the song !Freddie.MGU. Then right-mouse click on the first bar and press
the "BUILDER" button to launch the following

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Builder

dialog:

You can now click on the root of the chord (in the 'Root' Group), the Extension
(Maj7 etc.), and also an alternate "slash-note" root.

For example, to make the chord F9/A, you would click on the 'F' root, the '9'
extension, and the Slash Root of /A. As you click on them, you'll hear the bass
note played on the Bass part, and the extension played on the Piano track.

If you are happy with the sound of the chord, you can press the 'ENTER CHORD'
button, that enters the chord at the bar and beat specified.

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Exploring the Ear Training Window

To launch the

press Ctrl-Shift-J, or menu item User-Ear Training).

There are 2 modules in the Ear Training Window:

1.) The Chord Tutor plays chords (root + extension) for you to identify.

2.) The Interval Tutor plays note intervals for you to identify.

Click on the Chord Tutor button to ensure that the Chord Tutor module is
displayed.

root note of the scale as a reference point.
Click on any of the other note names to hear that root.
Click on any of the chord extensions to hear that sound.

Ear Training

Press the "Play Tonic" button to familiarize yourself with the

Window, click on the Ear Training button, (or

Now you're ready for "the test": Guess The Roots.

You can test yourself on roots only, or root + extension.

root again.

Press "Guess Root". You'll hear a root played.

If you need help, press the "Play Tonic" button to hear the

… and "Replay Root" to hear the root-to-guess replayed.

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When you think you know the root, press the root name on the list of
note names at the left.

If you guess incorrectly, you'll see a message that says "Wrong Root".
You'll then hear the note that you guessed playing, followed by the
root-to-guess note again.

If you guess correctly, you'll see a confirmation of that, and can play again.

Press the STOP button to stop the game.

Let's guess Root and Extensions.

The Guess a New Chord game works in the same way, except that you are
guessing chord extensions. The root is always the same, whatever the setting is at
the left. Click on the extension to guess, and "Replay Chord" to hear the chord
again.

In this mode, you need to guess both root and extension. You can guess them in
any order. Click on the root. When you get it correct you can move on to the
extension.

Exploring the Print Preview and Save To Graphics

Continuing with the !Freddie.MGU demo song, let's try to save a graphics file of
the leadsheet.

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First, open up the notation window and make sure you have the Melody track
highlighted by pressing the 'M' button.

Press the PRINT button, and then the Print-Preview button. You'll then see a Print
Preview of the page. You can print it out by pressing CLOSE and then OK­PRINT.

In this case we want to save it as a graphics file. To do this, press the SAVE button
(if there is only 1 page) or SAVE RANGE (if there is more than 1 page).

After pressing SAVE, you will then be given the option of choosing what type of
graphics file to save your leadsheet as (e.g., BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF). There are
many factors to consider when choosing an appropriate file type. Perhaps the best
source of information regarding the various graphics file types can be gleaned
from any Paint or Photo editing software, or from the Internet.

For most uses, we like to use B/W BMP (black and white bitmap), JPG, or PNG.
The JPG file type has additional settings like Save Quality (range from 0 to 100)
that makes the page look better, but the resulting file is bigger. Choose a name and
destination for your file, such as MyFile.BMP.

The resulting graphics file representing your composition can now be pasted into
your Graphics program, Word document, or web page, etc.

Note: If you want a custom setting for # of pixels per page in the file, you can set
this in the OPTIONS dialog. For example, if you want your web page to display a
leadsheet of your composition that is 425 pixels by 550 pixels, make these settings
in the OPTIONS dialog. Additionally, from the print dialog you can set the # of
staffs to display per page and the size of the font to use.

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Here's how the !Freddie.MGU file looks like saved as a B/W (black and white)
BMP (Windows bitmap file) from Band-in-a-Box and imported into MS Word.

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Let's check out Styles Disk #24

Note: Styles Disk #24: If you ordered Band-in-a-Box 10 as an upgrade, the
package includes Styles Disk #24. (This is not one of the styles disks that is
included in the first time purchase unless you order the MEGAPAK.)

If you have the first time version of Band-in-a-Box and don't have a
\bb\styles24 directory, instead use the \BB\SOLODEMO directory of BB for
this example.

To try out the new styles from Styles Disk #24, press the
a song (e.g., from c:\bb\styles24).

Once you have a song loaded in, the directory will be set to the styles demo.

Then you can simply press the SONG button to see a full list of the songs.

Many of the styles on this disk are "intelligent guitar styles." These are identified
by the exclamation point (!) in the name of the style (e.g. !FREDDIE.STY).

When you listen to the styles that are guitar styles, remember that you can watch
the guitar part on the guitar fretboard as the voicings will actually be correct for
guitar.

Press the

This is the end of the tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to read this section.

JukeBox

button to hear all of the styles demonstrated, one after another.

button and load in

OPEN

The next sections examine the new features in detail.

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