Sandra,

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What a rubish. I am a professional jazz guitarist and guitar teacher. I use this programm myself on a daily basis for practising. I also recomment it to all my students.



LOL. I assume you meant “rubbish”. You obviously misunderstood the analogy.

I LOVE BIAB and wouldn’t want to be without it. It took practicing from being boring and tedious to being a quasi “jam session”! I also recommend the program to all musicians, from budding “newbies” to seasoned professionals.

On most all of the songs I recorded prior to having BIAB, I wrote the songs, played all of the instruments, and sang lead and harmony. If I ever start recording again, the first thing I’ll “lay down” will be BIAB. I’ll then play and record as many of the other instruments as possible, and probably just end up using drums and piano from BIAB, and any other instrument I can’t play or don’t have access to.

If I ever start “gigging” again, it’ll probably be with BIAB backing tracks. But I’ll be playing rhythm and lead guitar and doing the vocals.

So what was the point to the “Painter-In-A-Box” analogy? If you just type in a progression into BIAB and select a style, and you don’t play an instrument to accompany it, don’t compose a melody, and/or don’t write and/ or sing lyrics, then you didn’t write … nor do you have a song. You have a chord progression with computer generated tracks.

That deserves the same amount of respect from your fellow musicians as using “Painter-In-A-Box” will get you from your fellow artists.

By the way, I love your playing! Nice guitar too.

If you want to hear any of my playing, there’s a radio program posted on Soundcloud. The songs range from bluegrass to jazz to new acoustic. If I recall correctly, Minor Swing is included. I pulled my originals from the site.

http://soundcloud.com/bobcflatpicke/music-in-the-mountains

Bob
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