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What is a .bpgs chord? #58298 01/30/10 04:46 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 12 PA USA A ajoe OP Newbie
OP ajoe Newbie A Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 12 PA USA	I was surfing the demo songs and came across one called "Photographs" based on PNOMOOD.STY and uses several .bpgs chords, such as: DMaj7.bpgs Em7.bpgs I cannot find any reference anywhere to such chords. Anyone know what these are? Thanks.

Re: What is a .bpgs chord? ajoe #58299 01/30/10 05:21 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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Mac Veteran M Joined: May 2000 Posts: 38,502 Chesapeake, Virginia USA	They indicate "Rest All Instruments But..." commands. In that instance, .bpgs means rest all instruments except Bass, Piano, Guitar and Strings. For the noob, the best way to deal with this at first is to not use the keyboard shortcut of typing in the Dmaj7.bpgs but to instead RightClick on the bar in question and select, "Chord Settings" -- use the little Chord Settings window to find out what is going on there, or what you can do. --Mac PGmusic FAQs, Tutorials and Updates! click here You must be Audiominds. www.audiominds.com

Re: What is a .bpgs chord? Mac #58300 01/30/10 08:22 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 12 PA USA A ajoe OP Newbie
OP ajoe Newbie A Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 12 PA USA	Thanks Mac, I knew about chord settings, but hadn't made the connection with the bpgs suffix, and nothing in the manual. But now I know.

Re: What is a .bpgs chord? ajoe #58301 02/01/10 11:24 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 57 Point Richmond, California G georgeptingley Enthusiast
georgeptingley Enthusiast G Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 57 Point Richmond, California	See current manual pp. 76-78 or the previous manual pp. 59-60 for further helpful reference. gpt

Re: What is a .bpgs chord? georgeptingley #58302 02/01/10 12:21 PM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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jford Veteran Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 12,844 Pensacola, Florida	Quote: In that instance, .bpgs means rest all instruments except Bass, Piano, Guitar and Strings. And just for clarification, since drums are the only instrument left, ".bpgs" means that you will only hear the drum track, along with the melody and soloist track, if they are present. The dot command only affects the style instruments (Drums, Bass, Piano, Guitar, Strings) - the melody line and soloist line always play if they are present. As Mac said, for newbies, it's best to look at chord settings to see explicitly what's going on. The same rules also apply for "shots" (represented by ..) and "holds" (represented by ...). So, if you want to hold all instruments except the drums, you would enter "C...d" and if you want a shot for only the drums, you would enter "C..bpgs". Just remember, the the instruments after the dots mean "all instruments except". John Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA BB2026/UMC204HD&404HD/Casios/Cakewalk/Reaper/Studio One/Notion/Dorico/Noteworthy/NI/Halion/IK http://www.sus4chord.com (under rehosting/construction)

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