Have you tried loading an already existing style into the stylemaker and taken a look at the individual parts?

Or, tried the style wizard to create a style from a MIDI file and looked at the results in Stylemaker?

After doing that, what I would do is to think about a song you like a lot and then build a style based on that song. Does the drumset go boom-chicka-boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom, or maybe it just goes boom-click, boom-splash, boom-chick, boom-crash. Well don't worry about making the next big style, just try to enter the MIDI notes that get that sound. Then think about what happens in the B section - maybe it's nothing more than hitting the same thing a little harder.

Then, figure out what the guitar is supposed to do. There are guitar macros you can use to easily get down-up strums in a style based on the rhythm you specify - it's documented in the user guide. Just enter some of those macro notes to get a chinga-linga-ling-ling feel.

Maybe the piano part just does arpgeggios. So, enter some arpeggios. If I recall correctly, style entry must be based on the C7 chord, so your arpeggio might go C-E-G-E-C or E-G-Bb-C-E, or whatever you want.

Save all that and then create a chord program and select your style (unless you saved it in the BIAB folder and rebuilt the style list, you may have to load style from disk to select it).

But just play with it and see what you get.

I'm sure as Notes will tell you, it's a lot of work, but once you get the hang of it, it will get easier.

Again, I would start by looking at what's already there. Learn about the weights (which determine which patterns play the most), and especially a weight of 9, which has special meaning (all documented in the user guide).

Don't know if that helped any; good luck!

John

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