I want to ask a question. Wonder if BIAB can do this now? The situation is this:
This is a song in G major. But there is an F at bar 9, giving a sense of rest It didn't feel discordant, but it sounded good. Is there any chord suggestion function in BIAB, for example, in a certain BAR position, I want to add a chord of what feeling, BIAB will give me suggestions, even in a position that already has a chord, BIAB will suggest me to change Em into Em7?
i think the answer is no. otherwise BIAB would be writing your music for you. its an auto accompaniment program not an auto songwriting program although BIAB will generate complete songs. it won't 'help you out' when you want a suggestion at a point in writing a song.
i think the answer is no. otherwise BIAB would be writing your music for you. its an auto accompaniment program not an auto songwriting program although BIAB will generate complete songs. it won't 'help you out' when you want a suggestion at a point in writing a song.
thanks for the reply. That's a pity. I'm going to try SCALER, which has a chord suggestion feature in it.
thanks for the reply. That's a pity. I'm going to try SCALER, which has a chord suggestion feature in it.
Yes, that's an option, but it's possibly separate to the creative way we tend to use BiaB. Isn't it less satisfying when someone/something else is relied on the provide the creativity?
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i think the answer is no. otherwise BIAB would be writing your music for you. its an auto accompaniment program not an auto songwriting program although BIAB will generate complete songs. it won't 'help you out' when you want a suggestion at a point in writing a song.
thanks for the reply. That's a pity. I'm going to try SCALER, which has a chord suggestion feature in it.
Google/Bing either chord substitution or chord substitution chart and you will find a lot of data on this.
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i think the answer is no. otherwise BIAB would be writing your music for you. its an auto accompaniment program not an auto songwriting program although BIAB will generate complete songs. it won't 'help you out' when you want a suggestion at a point in writing a song.
thanks for the reply. That's a pity. I'm going to try SCALER, which has a chord suggestion feature in it.
Google/Bing either chord substitution or chord substitution chart and you will find a lot of data on this.
thanks. These keywords help me a lot. I will do a search. Do you have any related websites to recommend, thank you very much
Or you can use the BBPlugin in the RapidCoposer Standalone. Just drag the chords from the Plugin into RapidComposer Import Midi. [/img]
I don't understand one thing. You mean, drag and drop BIAB chords into RapidComposer to play? Or drag and drop the chord progression of RapidComposer into BIAB to play?
There is another problem. How to modify the display here to CDEFGAB?
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