202 new RealTracks for Band-in-a-Box^® with great new Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Funk, Country and World styles.

• 60 Jazz, Blues, Funk & Latin RealTracks (Sets 301-309): The Jazz, Blues, Funk & Latin collection this year contains an amazing assortment of legendary musicians. We’ve added more Drums and Percussion from the amazing Alex Acuna, well known as the drummer for Weather Report and many other seminal fusion groups. With this collection, along with the master guitarist Ramon Stagnaro, there are Brazilian Bossa & Samba styles (10) as well as many more Latin American styles (11) with RealTracks "firsts" such as the "Bajo Sexto," a Mexican stringed instrument. This set also features the requested "RumbaFlamenca" styles. We also have new Modern Funk RealTracks (10) from some of New York’s most exciting musicians. Guitarists Bob Lanzetti, Mark Lettieri, drummer Sput Searight, and percussionist Keita Ogawa are all part of some of the most exciting funk and world music projects coming out of New York and are now RealTracks artists. There are new "Fiery" Harmonica Soloists (5) from LD Miller, who won first runner up on the first season of "America’s Got Talent" with his amazing harmonica performances. We also have amazing new Blues Rhythm and Soloist Guitars (4) from the amazing Sol Philcox, as well as new Funky Acoustic Guitar (3) styles from Colin Linden and Joe Robinson. There are also new Djembe & other percussion styles (7), from Keita Ogawa, Tango styles (4), and Modern Jazz Waltz Drums (2). To top it off, we’ve added to our collection of Horn Section styles with some great, growly Blues Horns (4)!
• 68 Pop, Rock and World RealTracks (Sets 310-319): We have some amazing new pop, rock, and world styles with Band-in-a-Box 2019. The perennial favorite Brent Mason has recorded some beautiful new pop soloists on both Electric and Acoustic Guitar (8). We also have wonderfully spacey "Cinematic" Electric Guitar (4) from Darin Favorite, as well as beautiful new 12-string and 6-string "Campfire" Acoustic Folk styles (16), and Rock & Grunge Acoustic Guitar (4) from Quinn Bachand. In addition to this, we have Pop-Rock Pedal Steel (4) with a modern edge from the Nashville great Eddy Dunlap, "Southern Pop" Drums (4) from Land Richards, and a set of laid-back singer-songwriter guitar and piano (6). To round off the "world music" side of things, we’ve added new Klezmer (12) accordion, guitar, bass, and drum styles as well as "A Taste of Europe" set of accordion and guitar (4). These feature world champion accordionist Cory Pesaturo. We also have a set with upright bass playing basic pop styles, as well as pop accordion (8), which are all very useful in a wide variety of styles.
• Country, Americana & Celtic RealTracks (Sets 320-328): With Band-in-a-Box 2019, we’re introducing an amazing new RealTracks guitar artist, Johnny Hiland! Johnny is a Nashville legend known for his blistering fast "Chicken Pickin’" soloing style, and we have three soloist styles that we’re proud to present in our "Chicken Pickin’" (3) with Johnny Hiland! We’ve also expanded our collection of "Americana" RealTracks, with new keyboards (4) from a CMA winner Mike Rojas, resonator guitars (6) from Eddy Dunlap, nylon and electric guitars (6) from Brent Mason, acoustic bass (1) from Byron House, drums and percussion (6) from Bryan Owings, fiddles (2), mandolins (6), and another RealTracks first: 5-string fiddle (5) and mandola (5) from Andy Leftwich! We’ve added to our collection of Celtic styles with another RealTracks first: amazing Celtic cellos (9) by Natalie Haas, which includes options both for the common "Celtic Chopping" technique, as well as styles that utilize long, flowing lines. Also, on the Celtic front we have new 12-string, and nylon guitar styles (6) from Quinn Bachand, which utilize another RealTracks first: "DADGAD-Guitar tuning." There’s also a set of Celtic soloists (8), so you can have an improvised solo over your chord progression in the styles of a Celtic jig, reel, or hornpipe. And for the icing on the cake, we’ve added a new background vocal RealTracks style with Gospel "Mmms" Vocals (5), which includes options that utilize four doubled voices, or combinations of the individual voices!