Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
I guess the bottom line is, if your audience does not mind then it is probably OK. there really is no other standard to apply! personally I would not feel comfortable standing up there by myself with only an acoustic guitar when the piano or sax started playing its solo! smile it would seem totally weird to me!


Right.

I very rarely program a BiaB soloist to play in my songfiles that I use for live performance. For much the same reason.

When I DO use a BB sololist in a song for live performance, I try to invoke a Soloist in which I can still work in some "play around" using my own instrument. I've got a couple or three songfiles where I've invoked a RealInstrument soloist, but have used Bar Settings and such things to turn that into a "Call and Response" solo rather than the entire Chorus soloing automatically. The Realtracks Soloist plays a couple bars, then I answer with a couple bars, etc. - but I have found that this is something that shouldn't be done too much in one evening, as well. In my case, it is never a Sax, but since I tend to have my songfiles set up such that the Virtual Accompaniment changes from Virtual Jazz Trio consisting of Bass, Drums and my own Piano or Guitar Playing to a Virtual Jazz Quartet where BB plays Bass, Drums and one Jazz Guitar while I play live piano or guitar, it is not a case where there is an "invisible" horn player taking a long solo. I don't tend to use the Horns much in live performance, Real or MIDI.


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