Thanks to everyone for putting up with the learning curve I am going through with BB.

Rob and Anne-Marie, I guess I have spent my share of late nights in smoky bars…lol…thanks for listening

Charlie, Thank you for commenting, you are a really nice guy who always has something good to say.

Janice & Bud, Thank you guys for the helpful instructions about Real Drums, I just have not learned enough to deal with the drum issue yet, perhaps soon I hope. It is evident in you songs that you guys have developed significant skills both as musicians and users of BB software. Janice, your vocals remind me why I love music.

Band In A Box has been part of a transition from the live world of music to the internet world of music. Putting all the software issues aside, just learning how to communicate and collaborate on line has been daunting. There are no visual cues, no body language, no engineer to lean on, plus the fact that many of my new on line friends speak many other languages, most of which I don’t speak very well, including standard notation…lol

To make matters worse, I have never been “the poster boy for political correctness” I googled it once and became even more confused…lol

This is some of the thinking process I went through trying to get BB to play out something I was looking for.
This was a very standard 12 bar blues progression.
|C|F|C9 Db9|C7|F9|F9|C|C7|G9|F7|C F9|C G7|

The style said Style is _TBLZSLR.STY (TexasBluesRock12-8 Rhythm [60RS]) but the drum line was in 4/4…I assume I could have found a 12/8 drum line somewhere…don’t know

The chords could be almost written but not exactly. To put in what I wanted would require BB to recognize chords in at least eight notes which I understand is something many have been asking for.

The B-3 distortion bugged me enough I did a frequency sweep, found the offending frequency range and pulled it out with EQ, and yes that reduced the dynamic range so it was a tradeoff.

I could have changed the piano line to most anything in Melodyne and a zillion piano riffs exist in BB in any event.

The Brent Mason solo had some T-Bone Walker signature licks, but well….too much rock and not enough blues, changing that would have required jumping through some real hoops…lol

The rhythm guitar parts were actually not too far off what I would have asked of a studio musician.

The vocalist needed to be twenty years younger, classically trained, and quit smoking fifty years ago…lol

All in all, the experiment was a little over my head for the current level of understanding I have of the software, but being a sailor, I never had much fear of jumping into the “deep in of the pool” lollol
Cheers,

Billy

Last edited by Planobilly; 08/18/15 07:41 AM.
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