Originally Posted By: tonnie


This can be written as Cmaj7/Dmaj7, however not in BB as the slash is used to indicate a desired bass note (e.g. Am7/G).



Hi Tonnie,

I'm a proponent of using the "pipe" to indeicate the Polychord in fake notation, rather than the slash.

That way, the slash is always indicative of the ostinuto or pedal bass note, the pipe indicates the Poly chord.

Cmaj7|Dmaj7

Fake notation is a living language, it is not uncommon to find printed amterials where the slash is used instead of the pipe.

At this moment in time, BiaB does not recognize the Polychord.

I have, however, come up with workarounds that can sound okay if not look good in the notation. Depending upon the tune at hand, one might try entering Gmaj9/C for the above Polychord, for instance. That would yield the C as bass note, plus the G, B, D, F# and A. But there are quite a few workarounds for these, actually, that won't play every note in the given stack, but can be used to play the "important" notes in most cases. The pieces where the really dense sound of every note in the Polychord, though, I've found difficult to reproduce by just entering chords in BiaB. For those I've had to resort to playing in the part via my MIDI keyboard on the Thru track and leaving it saved as a static part on the Melody or Soloist track. Then, adding BB autoaccompaniment, Bass, Drums, sometimes guitar, as appropriate, can yield the target song in sound if not in chord sheet.

But I do encourage you to make a post on the Band in a Box Wishlist Forum so that development can assess the amount of interest in such, it might just end up as a New Feature some day.


--Mac

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