Hi Bob,

Now that I think I have the quote button skill mastered (more or less) I am finally reading the rest of your post.
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Your description of your situation as a former music teacher wanting to get back into it is pretty much what all of us here do. We wern't all teachers but some are. In my case I was a full time touring player back in the day, got out of music completely for years and them picked it back up. I realized I either had to do that or give up music forever so I bought my first synth keyboard, a Kurzweil K1000 back in 1987 and started gigging again. I started with Biab about 7 years ago. With absolutely zero background with computers and less than zero experience working with any kind of music related programs it was a struggle believe me. And yes I admit I had my share of stupid comments in posts because I had no clue what I was doing.

There programs are fantastic, that's all I can say. Not perfect mind you and I have lots of wishlist items like we all do but still great tools anyway. Biab is used by music teachers the world over including a good friend who teaches guitar and owns three teaching studios. All his teachers use Biab because of the tools like the ear training function, setting up the circle of fifths for practice plus of course setting up whatever song you want a student to practice that week. The original key is G and he learns that so a couple of mouse clicks and it's now in Bb and you tell him to do it there, etc.

Bob



Music is just a really competitive business (bad supply demand situation). Only so many great players can make it (and a lot that do not are really great or would be if they kept it up). I will never forget when I went to college to study music, this horn player saying he went to another City thinking he could make a living, decided what he wanted to do and found 500 others trying to do exactly the same thing. That was 1972. It is worst today I figure.

I quit for 22 years after playing for 20. An old drummer friend talked me into playing again (took me 6 months of his bugging me and listening to my old stuff to get up the nerve to touch the guitar). When I first picked it up I could not even play my old scale exercises at speed 80 in 1/16ths. It took me 6 months to get back up to speed. Back at age 26 I was just figuring out how to play super fast but could not do it. Now I have just figured out a good way to practice this but it takes like 30 minute to maintain and all the other good stuff suffers. Only so many hours in a day. It is about the only thing I can actually do better than when I was teaching. Everything else is no where near as good. Its funny, now that I have master that form of picking (not as good as the best of course) it really shows that the fingering hand is now the weak link. Its fun though.

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Biab because of the tools like the ear training function



Thanks for letting me know this. I need this. LOL, now to fit it in? It sounds like BIAB/RT is definitely worth getting.

Last edited by bowlesj; 07/05/12 10:38 AM.
John Bowles
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