PG Music Band in a Box - Master Flatpick User Guide

Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

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Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

Table of Contents

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW 5

Welcome to Master Flatpick Guitar Solos 5

Learn how to solo like a master! 5
How to use the program 6
Includes Ba nd-in-a-Box Files 6
About Marty Cutler 6

CHAPTER 2 : INSTALLATION 7

Before you run the Progra m 7
Installing to Windows 7
Running the Progra m in W indows 95/98/NT 7
Running the Progra m in W indows 3.1 7
Selecting Your Sound or MIDI Driver 8

CHAPTER 3: TUTORIAL 11

Exploring the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos Features 11

Tool Bar Features And Feature Buttons: 12
The PLAY Buttons 16
Multiple Play Buttons 16

Check out the Main Program Screen 18

Navigation But tons 18
Song Details 18
Play Your Favorite Pieces. 23

CHAPTER 4: USING THE PROGRAM 24

Selecting and Playing Pieces 24

Selecting Pieces 24

Table of Contents 3

Playing The Pieces 24

CHAPTER 5: OPTION PANELS SETTINGS 28

General Options 28
MIDI Options 30
Audio Options 34

CHAPTER 6: GUITAR OPTIONS SETTINGS 36

Guitar Options… 36

CHAPTER 7: NOTATION MODES 38

MIDI Notation Window 38
Notation Window Options 39

CHAPTER 8: PULL DOWN MENU ITEMS 42

APPENDIX A: KEYSTROKE SHORTCUTS 47

APPENDIX B: TROUBLESHOOTING & DRIVERS 48

Section 1: Troubleshooting 48

Memory 48
Hard Drive 49
MIDI SOUND 51

Section 2: Setting up Wave/MIDI Drivers 53

Checking Drivers 53
Installing Windows 95/98 Soundcard Drivers. 57
Installing the Windows 95/98 MPU-401 Compatible Driver. 58
Installing third-party or unlisted drivers in Windows 95/98. 59

APPENDIX C: PG MUSIC INC. CONTACT INFO 61

PG MUSIC INC. MUSIC SOFTWARE PROGRAMS 62

INDEX 76

Chapter 1: Introduction & Overview4

Chapter 1: Introduction & Overview

Welcome to Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

The
program with professional flatpick arrangements of 50 songs. Each song features
a flatpick guitar solo played by top studio musician
accompanying piano (comping), bass, drums, and strings. There are almost 3
hours of flatpick guitar soloing in this program.

Learn how to solo like a master!

This program is an interactive learning aid, designed to help you learn to solo like
a professional flatpick guitarist. Musicians studying improvisation typically learn
by copying other soloists' performances. Since guitar is a "visual instrument", it is
easier to learn to play by watching the fretboard than by reading the music from a
staff. The on-screen guitar fretboard shows you exactly which notes and chords
are being played on the guitar. There are guide notes for typical positions for the
key, and note names, to help you learn the fret/string positions.
The purpose of this program is to help you to learn the art of flatpick
improvisation. The student who wants to lean to improvise flatpick music is
usually told to listen to some flatp ick solos, and learn from them.
Unfortunately, the student often encounters some obstacles after receiving this
advice.

! There aren't a lot of flatpick solos available in written form.
! Many solos that are written out are of very advanced material, beyond the

playing ability of the student. For example, the student may struggle to learn
16 bars of a complex solo based on a modal scale, but finds it difficult to
widely apply this information to more mainstream flatpick songs with typical
chord progressions.

program is a fully-featured interactive music

Marty Cutler

, as well as

We have created a program that has a huge library of flatpick solos, based on the
following parameters:

! All of these solos are "mainstream" playing, based on typical chord

progressions.

! Most of the soloing uses eighth notes, or triplets, so it is playable by most

musicians.

! Each song contains 3 or more full choruses of music.
! Optional guide-notes display scale tones in the correct key. Note names are

provided to aid in note/fret recognition.

! You can see the solos on the on-screen fretboard, hear the solos, slow them

down, or step through them one note at a time.

! You can play along with the flatpick quartet/quintet as you learn the solos.
! The solos may be printed out for further study.

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How to use the program

This program contains flatpick guitar solos covering various styles, from easy-to­play to advanced phrases. We suggest that you learn the phrases by first watching
the On-screen guitar fretboard, wh ile the notation scrolls by. You'll no tice that the
notation also contains TAB. To study a particular phrase, the program includes
advanced looping features. You can loop a number of bars, what you see on the
screen, or the entire song. If the song is playing too quickly, you can adjust the
tempo, or even the key.

Includes Band-in-a-Box Files

As an additional bonus, we’ve included the 50 songs in
free with this standalone product. If you’re a Band-in-a-Box user, you’ll find
them in the FGSOLO50 directory in your main install directory.

Band-in-a-Box

format,

We hope that you enjoy the

Have Fun!
PG Music Inc.

Master Flatpick Guitar Solos

program.

About Marty Cutler

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948, Marty Cutler began playing banjo in the
mid sixties. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Washington Square bluegrass scene
in New York City. His career as a banjoist and guitarist has included performing
with everyone from bluegrass greats Hazel Dickens and Peter Rowan, to Twyla
Tharp, and recording sessions for Saturday Night Live. A review of his solo
album "Charged Particles" in Downbeat magazine called him "a major innovator
on his instrument." Marty has also been a member of New York's infamous
Wretched Refuse String Band fo r over 20 years, and is still waiting f or his gold
watch to arrive in the mail.

As a MIDI programmer, Marty Co-Authored "MIDI for Guitarists" with Bob
Ward, And has programmed synthesizers for clients ranging from Fuji Film to
Tito Puente and many others, as well as sound design and voicing for Silicon
Graphics software based GM synthesizer. His banjo can be heard in the ROM of
the Korg Trinity and Triton synthesizers. He is also the producer of PG Music's
program, the Bluegrass Band, and is the author of their "Unplugged" styles disk.
Marty currently lives with his wife and four cats in Oakland, California.

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Chapter 2 : Installation

Before you run the Program

Make sure that the WAVE AUDIO and MIDI drivers for your computer's sound
system are already installed into the Windows Operating System. (In other words,
does your computer already make sounds?) If not, you may need to install the
support software for your sound card (i.e. Creative Labs, Yamaha, Turtle Beach,
etc.) and/or MIDI card (MPU401,MQX, SC-7, etc.) into the "Windows Control
Panel | Multimedia | Drivers" section befo re using this program. (See Appendix B
for additional instructions.)

Installing to Windows

This program installs directly to your hard drive. You will require approximately
10MB of Hard Disk space.

1) Find the SETUP.EXE installation file (i.e. by clicking on the "My Computer"
ICON and double-clicking on the CD-ROM ICON, or by running the file
explorer/file manager applet.)

2) Follow the instructions to install the program. This will copy all of the Master
Flatpick Guitar Solos files to your hard drive.

3) The Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program file is FLATPICK.EXE.

Running the Program in Windows 95/98/NT

1) From the Start Menu, Choose the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos menu, and then
choose the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program.

Running the Program in Windows 3.1

1) From the File Manager, Choose the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program
(FLATPICK.EXE) , and double-click. Alternately you can select the same
program from the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos group.

OR

As with all Windows programs, you can simply double-click with the Mouse
Button on the program ICON, or press the ENTER key (after moving the
highlighted bar to the ICON ). The Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program will
then load and run.

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Selecting Your Sound or MIDI Driver

THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU RUN THIS SOFTWARE

attempt to automatically detect and configure your computer's Sound and MIDI
setup. The program will use your system's default Wave Output Device (i.e. from
the Windows Control Panel | Multimedia |Audio Playback Output Device
Settings) for outputting Digital Audio, and then attempt to use the "best" MIDI
Output device from your system's list of installed MIDI Output Devices (i.e.
Windows Multimedia MIDI Settings.)

Since there are normally a number of MIDI Output Devices installed in a typical
Windows Multimedia System, a dialog box (shown below) displaying the
predetermined MIDI output device is presented to you in order to confirm that
this is the best MIDI Output Device present in your computer system. If the
program successfully suggests the best possible (i.e. highest quality sound) MIDI
Output Device for your system, or if you are unsure of this setting, choose
continue, and skip ahead to the next chapter.

Automatic detection of optimal MIDI output settings

If you choose NO, or if you wish to change the automatic MIDI Output Device
setting, simply choose the program's "File | Options | MIDI Options" menu item,
and click on the MIDI DRIVERS button, shown here:

, the program will

YES

to

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You will then be presented with a dialog like the one below:

Select MIDI Input and Output Driver dialog.

The program will play the MIDI music using the driver you specify here. In this
example, we have selected the Creative MIDI Instrument Mapper (shown in the
right-hand column), which is a common MIDI device driver setting for the
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32/64 line of sound cards.

The Synth Output Latency Delay in MS

setting is used in the special case when
you have a "Software Synthesizer" installed in your system which generates a
MIDI delay, or latency. If you have such a device installed, and you wish to use
this device for MIDI Output, you should refer to the documentation that came
with your "Software Synthesizer" to obtain the correct Latency setting. (e.g., A
Roland VSC-55/88 usually uses a latency setting of 420ms on a typical Pentium
system.)

OPTIONALLY SELECT AN INPUT DRIVER

.
If you want to play along with the program using a computer-MIDI controller
setup (i.e. Synthesizer Keyboard, MIDI Guitar, etc. connected to your computer),
you can utilize the MIDI THRU function of the program by selecting a MIDI
driver for INPUT.

Otherwise, you can leave the INPUT DRIVER set to <NONE> as the program
does not require an INPUT DRIVER in order to function. In our example (left­column shown in figure above) we have selected the SB16 MIDI In [330] driver,
since we have a MIDI-controller Keyboard connected to the MIDI-IN port of the
Soundblaster sound card.

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Once you have selected the driver preferences, the program's Main Screen will
appear and you will be ready to use the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program.

The quickest way to get started is to read th e following tutorial which runs
through the major features of the program. If you just can't wait a second longer,
press the

PLAY ALL

button now to begin song playback and to ensure that your

driver selection is working properly.

Main Toolbar

As you listen, take a few moments to go through the tutorial and the rest of this
guide.

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Chapter 3: Tutorial

Exploring the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos Features

This tutorial assumes that you've already installed the program and your output
drivers are installed into the Windows Control Panel (see the Installation
Instructions in the previous chapter and Appendix B for detailed instructions.)

This is the main screen for the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos. There are several
areas that you will notice (from top to bottom ):

The Title Bar

running time of the piece. (in 800x600 or higher screen/display resolution.)

The Main Toolbar

SECTION/PART LISTS, and the many FEATURE BUTTONS such as Audio
Mix, SOLO, Key Transpose, and Print Buttons.

The Audio Overview Window

representation of a song's audio data. This window allows you to quickly move to
anywhere in a piece using by mouse clicking anywhere in the waveform area.

at the top of the screen shows the title, bar number, and the total

contains the MODE BUTTONS, the SONG LISTS, the

(shown below) is a digital waveform

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This area also allows you to set specific LOOP POINTS by clicking above and
below the desired section. The top loop point marker sets the loop BEGIN point,
and the bottom marker sets the loop END point. (In this example the middle
section would be the looped region.)

As the lesson plays,

on-screen guitar fretboard

The
displayed with the highest strings (notes) of the guitar at the top, and the open
position of the guitar (headstock) on the left.

the piano keyboard

is a graphical representation of a guitar neck,

On-Screen Guitar Fretboard

displays the notes.

Tool Bar Features And Feature Buttons:

View Notation

Use this button to view the notation scr een. This will show full transcriptions
(synchronized to the music) of the currently loaded/playing song. To view the
MIDI notation instead of the Transcrip tion Notation, press the MIDI Notation
Button (shown below) while in the Notation Mode.

Book Button - View Text/Pictures

Use this button to view close the Notation Screen and open the Text/Content
Screen. You can enter the Text/Content mode and view pictures, text, biographies,
(and more) while the music is play ing.

Song Categories List

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This listbox allows you to select songs from different Songlists (see below) based
on the category selected here. To use the songlist which contains the entire list of
songs available on the CD-ROM, choose the ALL SONGS category list, as shown
above.

Songlist

Select a piece that you would like to hear by MOUSE CLICKING once to open
the list of songs available in the currently selected Songlist, and again over the
title of the piece. Playback Starts Automatically.

Media Playback Mode

This feature allows you to choose from a list of playback modes available for the
currently selected song. (The playback modes list may vary from song to song.)

• Choose the MIDI mode if you wish to hear a MIDI representation of the

Note:

song.

Part Selection

This feature allows you to select which "part" to select for muting, soloing or
MIDI notation purposes. For example, to see the MIDI notation of the "Sax" part,
select the part from this list and select MIDI notation to see this part displayed.

This is the only mode present in this program.

The Tempo Box

This feature allows you to quickly change the tempo (or speed) at which the piece
is played back. Note: Changing the tem po will affect the pitch of the digital audio
playback and if the playback mode is Au/MIDI, or Au/SMIDI an adjustment is
made to the pitch of the MIDI playb ack to remain in tune with the Digital Audio .

The Half Speed Button

This feature allows you to quickly change the tempo (or speed) at which the piece
is played back to exactly 1/2 of the original speed.
Note: Using the 1/2 Speed Button will af f ect the pitch of the digital audio
playback (plays one octave below), but has no effect on the pitch of the MIDI
playback (i.e. plays in the original octave.)

The Key Transpose Box

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Allows you to quickly change the Key at which the piece is played back.
Note: Changing the Key will affect the temp o of the digital audio playback and if
the playback mode is Au/MIDI, or Au/SMIDI an adjustment is made to the tempo
of the MIDI playback to remain in synch with the Digital Audio.

Mute Button

This button allows you to quickly mute or unmute the part currently selected by
the Part Selection list box. Press once to mute the part, and press again to unmute.

SOLO Button

This button allows you to quickly "Solo" the part (e.g. mute all other tracks)
currently selected by the Part Selection list box.

General Options

Launches a control panel which allows you to set various program settings such as
Notation Scroll-Ahead mode, Semitone and Cents (tuning) adjustments, Random
Playback when Play ALL is selected, etc.

Font Button

This button allows you to choose the font, and adjust its size and style for the
text/contents screens.

Print Button

The print button allows you to print full page SHEET MUSIC or individual
practice screens of the currently selected song to your Windows Compatible
Inkjet or Laser Printer.

Menu Button

This button offers easy access to the MENU items (i.e. File; Play) which offer
access to the various functions and features of the program. This is especially
helpful when running in 640x480 screen resolution mode.

Help Button

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This button launches the opening chapter of the program's Help Topics, which
contains full descriptions of all the features and functions available in the
program.

Loop Button and Section/Bars Selector

The Loop Button and Section/Bars selector work together to allow you to quickly
select a section (using the section selector --verse, chorus1, etc.), loop points
(using the overview window), a number of Bars (i.e. 1,4,8,12,24, etc.), or the
entire song. Select the section you wish to loop and press the Loop Button (at left)
to start the Loop Feature.

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The PLAY Buttons

Play Button

Play a single piece by using the play button or selecting from the song list
The PLAY button will play the piece that is currently selected (highlighted) in the
LIST Window). You can also use the mouse to select a piece; a piece will load
and play automatically as soon as it is selected from the SONGLIST drop-down
box.

Stop Button

Stop the music by pressing the stop button. When playback is resumed the song
will start from the point at which it was stopped.

Multiple Play Buttons

The following buttons allow you to play one or more pieces that are displayed in
the LIST of Pieces:

Favorites Button

PLAYING YOUR FAVORITE PIECES

You can select your favorite pieces in the lists by clicking the MOUSE button on
the checkbox beside the name of the piece. You should then see an asterix beside
the piece name indicating that it is a favorite piece of yours. Clicking the MOUSE
button again to clear the checkbox will de-select it. You can save your list of
favorite pieces (from one to all of the pieces) to disk by choosing the "Save
Favorites..." option from the File Menu. When you press the PLAY FAVORITES
button, the pieces that have been selected as your favorites will be played one
after another.

All Songs Button

This will play all of the pieces in the current list of pieces one after another, or in
a random order if the Random Playback option is selected in the General Options
Tab.

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Previous/Next Piece buttons

These buttons move to the previous or next piece when you are playing more than
one piece.

.

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Check out the Main Program Screen

The left-hand pane of the Content/Text screen provides easy navigation
throughout the program.

Navigation Buttons

Song Details

Selecting the

Songs

! The
! The
!

! The

! The
! The

button will display the following screen.

BACK

previously viewed pages.

Main Menu

program, visible on startup.

Quick Start

Overview

containing information and tips on studying with the
Master Flatpick Guitar Solos.

Songs
Help

FORWARD

and

button displays the main screen of the

provides the basics of operating the program.

button displays the program overview,

button displays the list of 51 tunes.

button will display the Progr am Help.

buttons let you navigate to

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Click on the speaker icon to launch/hear the lesson.
Click on the

the icon. This will also automatically launch the Notation mode so that you can
see as well as hear a given example.

notes icon to play the lesson described in the text to the right of

Selecting the

Song Memo

button will display a short memo about the song.

First, let's play the songs one at a time.

Select the
titles in the program. You will then see th e list of all the pieces displayed in the
Songlist listbox (shown next)

ALL

Category List to ensure that you are displaying the list of all the

Select a piece that you would like to hear by CLICKING over the title of the
piece. In this case, we have selected "12 - Cluck Old Hen
song #12. The memo for this song will provide more information. Playback Starts
Automatically.

As the piece is playing, you can do a lot of things:

Press the notation button to display the music/lesson notes.

When you press the NOTATION button (far top-left of screen), the main
introduction screen will be replaced by the MUSIC NOTATION screen.

This screen will display the MIDI Notation for the song.

", indicating that this is

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MIDI Notation Window displaying the guitar part and tablature.

As you can see, this notation mode provides you with an excellent view of exactly
which notes are being played (noteheads are highlighted in red.) You can step
through each note or chord one-at-a-time by pressing the NUMPAD period (.) and
zero (0) keys on your computer keyboard, or by mouse-clicking on the ARROW
buttons shown at the top of the MIDI Notation window. You can view each part
in the MIDI Notation Window by selecting one from the PART SELECTION box
(shown below.)

Now, let's choose an appropriate sound for the accompaniment (MIDI) part.

Press the General Options button to launch the General Options Panel. Choose the
MIDI tab.

Now, try changing all the MIDI tracks to "Tenor Sax" by selecting the PART
(shown at top-left) and then selecting the appropriate PATCH for each of the
parts, so that each PART is using the Tenor Sax patch. Click OK to continue.

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Now when you press the PLAY button, you will hear the Tenor Sax patch for that
part.

Pressing the SPACEBAR will also STOP or START the Song.
THE MINUS KEY '-' backs up by 2-seconds.
THE ENTER KEY Starts the song from the beginning.

SLOW DOWN OR SPEED UP THE PIECE (TEMPO CHANGE)

1) Use the [ and ] (square bracket keys) to slow down or speed up the piece by 5
beats at a time.

2) Use the
the piece is played back.

3) Use the F5 function key (or press the 1/2 speed button) to toggle between Slow
Motion (half speed) and normal tempo. If you have been changing tempos, this
feature is useful to return you to the normal/original tempo.

TRANSPOSE THE PIECE

F6 keys or by using the up/down arrows on the Key box.

Tempo Box

up/down arrows to change the tempo or speed at which

up or down a semitone at a time by using the F7 or

MOVE TO A SECTION OF THE PIECE

Use the Mouse to move to a new section of the piece !

The Wave Overview Window

piece by mouse-clicking anywhere in this area. The music is displayed here from
left to right. Also in this view, an auto-scrolling vertical bar highlights the
currently playing area.

allows you to quickly move to anywhere in the

LOOPING A REGION OF MUSIC

You might also notice the tiny
and below the wave overview window. These triangles are used to set the
beginning (top-marker) and ending (bottom-marker) loop points, in order to have
the program endlessly loop an region of music that you wish to practice. You can

Loop Markers

(little triangles) positioned above

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set these loop markers by mouse-clicking above the Wave Overview Window to
set the start marker, and below to set the end marker.

Then, all you have to do is press the
section you have marked loop continuously until you press the loop button again.

LOOP

button (shown below) to hear the

Print Out a Hardcopy of The Sheet Music For Further
Study!

By now, you have seen some of the program's powerful MIDI playback features.
But we still have a few more things to do. Follow these instructions to pr int out a
beautiful hardcopy of the sheet music right on your own inkjet or laser printer.
First, select the song you wish to print out by loading it in to the program using
the songlist.
Make sure the program is in Notation mode before you press the print button,
otherwise you may end up printing the
notation. You can switch to this by hitting F2.

Then, press the
This is the "Print MIDI Notation" option. Alternately, you can open the MIDI
Notation Window (shown below), select the part you want to print out, and press
the MIDI Notation's internal

PRINT

button to use the print feature.

PRINT BUTTON

TEXT/CONTENT

(shown here.)

screen instead of the

Playing All the Pieces Contained on the CD-ROM

Let's cue up more than one piece at a time.

Select the ALL SONGS Category List to ensure that you are displaying the list of
all the pieces in the program.

Then, press the play ALL button. This will play through the pieces one by one,
with a few seconds pause between each. The pieces are played in random order.

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(If you prefer sequential order, try setting
Settings Panel.)

Use the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos a s Ba ckground Music while you work
in other programs.

Note that the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos will continue to play even while you
work in other programs. So for example, you can start the Master Flatpick Guitar
Solos program playing ALL songs and then switch over to your Word Processor.
Try changing the program's Window size and you will see that the notes continue
to be displayed while you work in other programs. If you MINIMIZE the program
window or RESIZE it so that only the "On-screen Fretboard" is visible, you'll see
that the notes are still displayed even while an other program is active.

Random

to No/Off in the General

Play Your Favorite Pieces.

Step 1-Making up your List of Favorites:

pieces very easily with the Master Flatpick Guitar Solos program. To mark a song
as a 'favorite', simply mouse-click on the checkbox next to the song title. This will
place an asterix (*) beside the song's title to indicate that it is a favorite of yours.
To de-select the piece as a favorite, clear the favorites checkbox, which removes
the asterix *. You can then save your favorites selection to disk by choosing the
option SAVE AS DEFAULT FAVORITES so that the next time that you run the
Master Flatpick Guitar Solos, it will remember your Favorites.

Step 2-Playing your Favorites

except that it will only play pieces that are in the currently showing list which are
marked with an asterix (*) as one of your favorites.

You can make up your list of favorite

button works like the PLAY ALL button,

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Chapter 4: Using the Program

Selecting and Playing Pieces

Selecting Pieces

You first use the CATEGORY list to select a LIST of pieces to appear in the
Songs List Window. Then, you will see a list of songs displayed in the List
Window.
To select songs in the List Window:
Use the mouse to click on the title of the Song that you want to play.

Playing The Pieces

These buttons allow you to play one or more pieces that are displayed in the
SONGLIST:

PLAY A SINGLE PIECE BY PRESSING THE PLAY BUTTON

The PLAY button will play the piece that is currently selected (highlighted) in the
LIST Window).

• Pressing the SPACEBAR will also STOP or START a song.

• THE MINUS KEY '-' Backs the playback position up by 2 seconds.

• THE ENTER KEY Starts the song from the beginning.

•

STOP THE MUSIC BY PRESSING THE STOP BUTTON

• Pressing the SPACEBAR will also STOP or START a song.

PLAY YOUR FAVORITE PIECES
Playing your Favorites

will only play pieces that are in the currently showin g list that are marked with an
asterix (*) as one of your favorites.

PLAYING ALL OF THE PIECES IN THE LIST

This will play all of the pieces in the current list of pieces one after another or
randomly, depending on the setting of the
Settings panel.

PREVIOUS/NEXT PIECE BUTTO NS

button works like the PLAY ALL button , except that it

Random Playback Box

in the General

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