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This is just another moment of joy I am having with this product!
Recently, I have been in a rut when it comes to musical ingenuity. The charts I am working with all seem to fall into the fully worn pattern of 1-5-6m-4-5 routine in either the key of D or G with a chord change every measure. Needless to say, if you are one of those who too are stuck in this mind numbing genre can feel the walls collapsing in around you check out some of the interesting prewritten songs in this product.
I am discovering, and enjoying, vamping with chord and rhythmic arrangements of these songs that have awakened me to inventive melodies again! Stuff like putting a Bb9 beside an Emi7 for example, is contrary to not only the routine aforementioned but also common theory conventions where you have two contrasting chords that do not comply with any traditional key. Yet, they sound great together amidst the instrumental arrangement!
I bought this to write songs. But, I have been having so much fun learning again, it may be a year before I get through all these songs and begin to write my own again. One thing is for sure, my new songs will definitely have more breadth to them as a result of these songs.
Forgive my note in not really asking anything. But, I am having a blast with this product and hope what is said here will also serve to encourage others who may be considering investing in BIAB to stretch their musical envelopes beyond what they have grown accustomed to or having fallen into a rut in their own music.
Thanks, PGmusic!
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Bb9 and Em7 don't 'comply with any traditional key'? Are you sure? What about modes? In any case, if it works, work it - rules are there to be broken 
Follow That Dream Sam Karaoke King -------------------- Turning that corner again - I have to keep following that dream, no matter what
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That's the ticket, RickG, BiaB is a stellar teaching/learning tool in so many ways, you've described one of them very well.
As for the Em7 and the Bb9, welcome to the exciting world of jazz harmonies!
If you are in the key of G Major, then the Em7 is the 6m, of course, and that Bb9 is the b3, which sticks the #9, Bb of the key of G at the root and thus we have one cool transition.
Of course, in staff notation, it does require use of accidentals because the Bb and the F natural are not in the key of G's key signature. Big deal.
If you experiment a bit with the two chords, try this: Em7/B to Bb9.
Same basic chord, but putting the B in the bass of the Em7 shows the beautiful chromatic motion going down a half step.
This could also be a transition to another key within the song. Typical of many jazz songs, the keychange may be for only two bars, such as in a 2m, 5, 1 progression (like in the bridge of Sleighride, to be holiday appropriate) or it could modulate for any number of bars for a bit. But it will eventually come back to the key of G.
Outstanding thing you are doing, keep it up! It is not as important to analyze the thing at first, the important thing is to become familiar with the known changes and what can be done. And the BiaB Demo Songs just about all have changes in them that are both common (to the jazz compendium) and delightful.
See if you can't insert some of them tastefully into some songs of your own, man.
Outstanding.
This I love to see.
--Mac
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Mac, your note was a music lesson in of itself! I have alway loved jazz, especially the big band era, because there was so much rich yet occasionally subtle movements going on under the melody. When I got BIAB one of the first songs I stumbled upon was "Peggy's Mood." And I have been in love with that arrangement that I have been taking it apart to see what may have come easy to the writers and arrangers so that I can then begin to see trends in the genre to where I can, like you said, become familiar with the known changes and what to do in them.
Thanks, I hope you do not mind my asking these types of elementary questions here. I am digging this experience and only wish I had this years ago.
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>> Forgive my note in not really asking anything. But, I am having a blast with this product and hope what is said here will also serve to encourage others who may be considering investing in BIAB to stretch their musical envelopes beyond what they have grown accustomed to or having fallen into a rut in their own music.
Thanks Ricke!
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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