At the moment, my main goals for BIAB2014 are to improve my piano/keyboard skills and to (try to) comp to some pre-recorded songs from my collection of CD's. I have a few questions on how to best accomplish this.

I've successfully converted a CD audio file to mp3, ran it thru the Audio Chord Wizard, tweaked the file tapping the first beat in every measure and organizing it into parts. I then saved it to BIAB and saved it as a BIAB song file. Now I'd like to play along using either the BIAB chord sheet or lead sheet as a guide. However....

1. BIAB's chord sheet annotation is relatively small, but it's pretty clear which measure is playing at any given time. The lead sheet annotation is relatively large, but it's not nearly as clear which measure is playing. (ie - the highlighting is dim and thin.) Is there a way to either increase the size of the chord sheet notation, or have the lead sheet highlight the current measure more prominently?

2. Having come from a background of playing off of sheet music (sight reading), I still have a lot of work to do in getting comfortable with quickly identifying chords and their inversions. So, is there any way to slow down the playback of a BIAB file that was created thru the Audio Chord Wizard (ACW), so that I can practice playing the accompanying chords slowly? I know that it's possible to increase/decrease the tempo for a chord progression/style that you input, but it doesn't seem that it's possible to do this with a file that came from the ACW.

3. Related to my inexperience with quickly identifying all but the most basic chords on the keyboard - Does BIAB have a built-in function somewhere that I could quickly refer to, that would show me the notes that comprise a given chord? Note: I have the Piano Chord Dictionary software, but it doesn't allow me to simply type in the chord (similar to the notation on BIAB's chord sheet). If nothing else, what's the best way to use BIAB to learn chords and their inversions (for piano/keyboard)?

Any help with these questions would be greatly appreciated. And if there are any good recommendations on how to learn to play from a leadsheet/fakebook (with or without using BIAB), I'd love to hear them as well.

Thanks.


Kawai VPC1 MIDI Controller; Asus A53E Laptop running Windows 7 - 64 bit; BIAB 2017 UltraPlusPak (upgraded from 2014 EverythingPak), running from Laptop's Hard Drive.