Its seems there are no improvements to the chord melody feature for guitarists. Regardless of which guitarist-type I choose or how much I pump the "guitar maker" editor, BiaB still makes what I consider to be lame chord choices too much of the time - at least for jazz - specifically a surfeit of chords which include notes on the both 5th and 6th strings (E and A strings), rather than more of the conventional drop two, etc. versions which usually exclude or move fifths (and other intervals) off of the fifth string, making the overall guitar sound less muddy and bass heavy. Here I am not talking about 2 note chords which are tucked in here and there, but 4 note or larger chords.

I guess I am really thinking about traditional jazz rhythm chords, and forgetting about the real complexities of jazz chord melody guitar in terms of making chords fit under melody notes, but I own literally hundreds of chord melody arrangements by famous teachers and performers (that I can barely play and never memorize completely as they harmonize almost all the notes) yet I am not seeing this tendency toward compacting the chords so tightly along the bottom strings in their charts.

Admittedly the BiaB guitar chord melody arrangements sound fine along with the generated rhythm section (RT's always), but I consider them to be otherwise unplayable, at least for me. I have been using Blue Bossa which has a fairly simple progression as my test case after I downloaded 2014. Wish it was more flexible at this perhaps too prosaic level as it would then be a dynamite learning tool.

Last edited by Wolftone; 12/05/13 01:06 AM.
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