Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what David Bailey wants to do here, but I've spent my time years ago with the Aebersold studies.

In Band in a Box, the only way I know to try to replicate such would be to first lay out the chords on the chord grid and then to assign fixed notes to the Melody or Solo track that play the Dorian mode over them.

Then find a Style that comes closest to voicing the chords as desired, but I wouldn't count on complete and exact "Dorian" voicings in the auto-accompaniment, for the Style file is likely to play the chord inversions more like a live player might choose them rather than "in a row" or scalular chording fashion. Which to my ears sounds better, but may not be what David wants here.

The Audio Chord Wizard may come in handy here, dunno, but you could try making an mp3 of your Aebersold recording and then import that into the Audio Chord Wizard, get the full song layout and First bar plus lining up the succeeding bars there, then transfer the results to BiaB. Of course, I would not expect the ACW to grab and identify every chord properly since it would be a Jazz recording with plenty of extensions, etc. likely, so I'd have to go thru the Chord Grid manually, correcting all the chords to suit. Then I'd go thru auditioning Styles to find one to suit. That would at least get the songfile layout. I would then add whatever notes desired using my MIDI keyboard to Record on the Melody track.

If this is to create a very exacting backing track, for teaching purposes, say, I think I'd not use Band in a Box, for there is no one-button solution that I know of. I'd use a Sequencing software such as Powertracks or RealBand and record exactly the backing desired, track by track.




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