Originally Posted By: Zeke
Many thanks to all of you for your help. In my original post on this topic, I forgot to mention than I'm technologically impaired. One day, I hope to understand everything each of you wrote . . . but today just isn't that day. Band-In-A-Box has a much steeper learning curb that I expected. It's really challenging for someone like me.

I do understand, however, about putting an extra measure at the beginning and then muting the other instruments for that measure. It's on my present learning level.

Thanks again. I'm so glad that there are guys like you who are willing to help us pea brains.

Many blessings,
Zeke



Experiment....play around with things. If you screw up, no problem, just close the project...DO NOT SAVE IT.....and reopen it and start again. You learn by making mistakes and figuring things out. Another way is to open the project, immediately do a SAVE AS, close the original version and work with the "saved as" version. That way you don't touch the original at all.

As I recall, when I write a song in BiaB, save it, close it and then open it in Real Band, there are 2 timing measures at the very beginning of each track..... count in measures. That's where you can use one of the unused tracks...set it up as audio and copy a section from one of the other existing tracks and paste it to the new unused track as pickup notes.

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You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

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