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...I'm amazed at how bad some of the songs are are.For example there is the tune A Night in Tunesia.
Of all the styles that are available, it loads with a Lee Ritenour style.I couldn't imagine it sounding any less musical.



Who cares what style it loads with? Someone thought it was cool and posted it like that. It's irrelevant, you're thinking like you're playing a cd or something. Even if it was saved with the basic jazz style, there's many different arrangements of Tunisia. Try the J_Dolphin style or one of the Bossa/Rock styles. The whole point of Biab is to find your own way of doing something.
Most of the files in Biab Real Book One are fairly accurate as far as the chord changes are concerned. The instrumentation used for melody's and solos can be all over the place and a lot of them sound horrible like Joy Spring with an accordian solo? Why? Who knows, it's a free file off the internet but the changes are right and it's one mouse click to change the instrument. One thing to keep in mind is it's still faster to have a file to work with that's 80% correct than it is to start from scratch and remember that Biab will intentionally change the voicing of jazz chords according to the style selected. Play around with the jazz up and jazz down the chords options as well as the styles. If you're convinced that some changes are truly wrong, just type in the song name and the word "chords" into Google, you'll find something. Who knows if it's right but you'll find something. Another good thing to do is find a midi file of a tune because you can get the chords from that too but if it's a good midi, put it into Real Band and really have some fun with it.

Bob

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