The first thing to do whan cnfronted with a song and looking for the "which style should I use?" constant is to count along with the target song and figure out what the Feel of the tune actually is.

In the case of Dobie Gray's version of this tune, since the pulse can be counted as "8 to the bar* while the song plays, and since the subdivision is in 2's and not 3's per beat, you would be looking for an EVen 16ths style, most likely.


That can be further narrowed down with a little common sense, for example, you know you're not looking for a Jazz style or a Swing style, no Gospel style, and very likely not one of the Bluegrass styles either, but you might find something in one of the Modern Country styles, and since the song is basically an R&B offering, one of those may do the trick as well. And Blues styles might work.

The thing here is to find the style that works as to that all imporrant FEEL first. Does. Not. Matter. if the instruments aren't yet playing what you want to hear at that point, does not matter if it is an all-MIDI style and you think you only want to deal in all Realtracks at that point either, the important thing at this phase is simply to get BB playing something along with your entered Chords that works as to that Feel and Tempo.

From there on in all you have to do is use the Prototype Style button and then the Preview on DoubleClick feature to audition only those styles that are PROTOTYPES of the style that fits.

Those will be indicated by an asterisk * in front of the stylenames in the stylepicker after you have hit the Prototype button.


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