I was going to add this to the wish list but thought I'd check here first to see if there is a remedy now in BIAB. Sometimes a melody is dancing around the fifth of the chord - perhaps it is the fifth or the flatted fifth or sharped fifth. When I am playing the keyboard, I would usually play the shell of the chord (root, third, seventh) in the left hand and let the melody manage the fifth, in whatever variation. Trying to play the fifth in the left hand generally just gets in the way so the shell approach is a clean way to mange the situation.

In BIAB, the best I can do is enter the chord variation (like C7, C7+, C7b5) but it usually doesn't work well due to timing, and it forces the BIAB style to break its pattern. So, I'd like to to have a BIAB chord I would call (for, say, C) C7X5 or C9X5, indicating that the BIAB style should not play the fifth.

Is there a way to do that now?

Last edited by kelso; 07/29/09 06:43 AM.
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