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Hi
One of the reasons I bought BB was so I could make backing tracks that I could use at my gigs. I have been using Abersold CD's until now but I would like to have more control over the song length and tempo. Does anyone know where I can find ready made SGU files that I can edit further?
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Bob Norton sells many "fake discs", which are SGU files that correspond to the songs in many of the most popular fakebooks you can purchase. Also, there are a lot of free SGU files available on the web. A Google search will help you find them; although, be aware many of the links are old and my not resolve properly. Over the years, I've downloaded probably 50,000 or so SGU/MGU files (although many are duplicates). Even with the duplicates, I probably have found 20,000 or so unique files on the web. Also, don't forget that you can load a MIDI file into BIAB and it will usually do a pretty good job of figuring out the chord progression of the song based on the content of the MIDI file.
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Plus you can use the Audio Chord Wizard feature in Band-in-a-Box or RealBand to help you figure out the chord structure and tempo of a song. Yahoo's ++ Band-in-a-Box ++ group has two auxiliary groups with song file archives. Some problems with using a downloaded song file is you don't know how old the file is, what recording the author used as a guide, how well the song file adheres to ANY recording or how capable of creating a pleasing song file the song file author is.
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Hi Oceanpaddler. I did a blog post about making my own backtracks with BIAB a while back. Here is the link 6 simple steps to make cool backing tracks with Band-in-a-Box I use these all the time for my live gigs. It is very simple and also rewarding making your own tracks and being able to change things that do not suit you and once you are in the swing of it, it does not take very long at all.
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Thanks for the resources, everybody! I pointed Oceanpaddeler towards the forum because I knew exactly how helpful you'd all be 
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Welcome to the forum. You mentioned Abersold. What styles of jazz interest you?
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Being a web guy, I can still find Allanah's site (sort of). Not sure how many of the files are actually there and good ... try right-click and 'save link as' on the song files listed. I know the "'a'songs" list download matched the file says Allanah said it was. Allanahs ArchiveProbably won't be around for long.. [url=http://]
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Norton Music Fake Disks feature many thousands of songs in BiaB format and they can be found here: http://www.nortonmusic.com/contents.html#fakeI also have a page describing how I make backing tracks with the help of BiaB and how I use them on stage. It's free advice, use what applies to your situation and feel free to ignore anything that doesn't http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.htmlNotes
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