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My goal is to add harmony to a song with 3 choruses, but only to the last chorus. I know how to select the harmony but I want to put it on the soloist track. Also, I don't want to change the melody instrument which is the elec. piano patch. I have win 7 home prem. and am using an SD2 hard synth.

I looked at help and it seems there's a selection for adding the harmony to the melody or soloist tracks, but when I hit the soloist button, it comes up with a melody popup menu.

I appreciate any help. thanks.

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How about letting the program generate the harmony for all choruses, but using F5 to mute all but the last one? Edit, Unfold to One Big Chorus would make this easy.


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Thanks Matt. I can do that,l but how to I get the harmony on the soloist track? I would like to have some sheet music for the harmony part for others to play. thanks.


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If your goal is to print parts, what difference does it make what track the harmony parts are on? I just make a second copy of the tune, write the harmony to the melody track, and use the Print options to print each individual part (transposed for the proper instruments) and then just delete the extra file.


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Originally Posted By: PhillyJazz
If your goal is to print parts, what difference does it make what track the harmony parts are on? I just make a second copy of the tune, write the harmony to the melody track, and use the Print options to print each individual part (transposed for the proper instruments) and then just delete the extra file.


Never tried that before. I'll give it a try now. Thanks.


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Oops! Sorry PhillyJazz. You thought that I was going to compose the harmony part. Actually, I wanted to let BIAB generate a harmony part and then get the notation from that. I can get a harmony part, but don't find any notation for it. Serves me right for being lazy. I'll do it in Finale instead.

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If you want notation from harmony in BIAB, look at pages 279-280 in the PDF user's manual.

Also, remember if you create a MIDI file of your arrangement, there is a checkbox for MIDI file options to write the harmony to the MIDI file. Otherwise, you'll just get whatever is on the melody track (page 517 in PDF user's manual).


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Originally Posted By: jford
If you want notation from harmony in BIAB, look at pages 279-280 in the PDF user's manual.

Also, remember if you create a MIDI file of your arrangement, there is a checkbox for MIDI file options to write the harmony to the MIDI file. Otherwise, you'll just get whatever is on the melody track (page 517 in PDF user's manual).


Thanks John. That might work. I can export to midi file and import the midi file into Finale and go from there. The manual pages you refer to seem to relate to separating the piano part into left and right hands on separate staves.


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Originally Posted By: Shastastan
Actually, I wanted to let BIAB generate a harmony part and then get the notation from that. I can get a harmony part, but don't find any notation for it.

"Harmony/Convert Harmony to Melody Track ..." fits your bill here. If you'd like to have the harmony on the Soloist track, choose "Harmony/Convert Harmony to Soloist Track ..." instead.


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Originally Posted By: MartinB
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Actually, I wanted to let BIAB generate a harmony part and then get the notation from that. I can get a harmony part, but don't find any notation for it.

"Harmony/Convert Harmony to Melody Track ..." fits your bill here. If you'd like to have the harmony on the Soloist track, choose "Harmony/Convert Harmony to Soloist Track ..." instead.


Exactly .. My point was that if the intention is to print charts, it really doesn't matter WHAT track they are on... since you can delete the temporary file afterwards anyway. I still meant for BIAB to generate the harmony, and not create it manually.

Before you print, go to "Options" and you can select the harmony voices individually (and transpose as necessary.)


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