Welcome to the forum. You may want to try this.

If you have trouble deciding on chord progressions, keys and tempos, rather than worry with that, choose a style you enjoy and load the demo for the style. It will load the chord progression, key and tempo as well as choose your 'band'.

You can mute the instrument that you play live if it is included in the band - and begin playing along immediately.

You can also woodshed the song. There is a tutorial for this in the PGMusic news feed dated 2/16/16.

PGMusic explains it as follows:

"Woodshedding (defined as Slang; to practice a musical instrument assiduously and with a specific goal in mind) is easy with Band-in-a-Box!"

"The idea is that you start off with a slow tempo, playing the part perfectly, and keep this up as the song tempo increases - what a great way to learn!"

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