Originally Posted By: KGU
thanks that helps. Ive looked at all
the video tutorials - I cant find
this.

HOW WOULD I PROGRAM THIS FOR EXAMPLE ?

2 Chords, A and C. One bar.


time

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 { half beats}

A A A A C A A A

{ The C on the 5th beat back to A on
the sixth beat }


thanks



Use a DAW and play the chords as you record your instrument live. Let BB provide the bass & drums and other rhythm instruments.

All you need is to have one instrument play that C chord and it will work musically and sound like everything is doing it when it's mixed correctly. Same thing with the "off time" things.....

BB works with quarter notes being the smallest resolution level. SO you have to be creative to get eights and such things in a special rhythm feel.

You can try changing some of the bar settings but it also affects the other instruments and the end result may be more frustrating than you want.

I've used live playing to create the unique groove to a song when I am unable to find it in the BB styles.... and yeah, as hard as it is to believe that with over 3000 styles, you can't find a groove..... yup.... it's true. So in those circumstances, I simply pick the underlying rhythm/groove that is the closest and fill in what BB can not, with my live guitar or piano.

One other aspect.... lets say the bass goes there too and plays that accent as well.... or the piano. In those cases, you need to use MIDI in a DAW. Find a patch or sample of the instrument and simply create that one small note of section with midi. Very similar to what I did on piano in Fool's Errand. BB/RB is playing the piano parts throughout the song, but in the middle I needed a very simple piano part.... my solution was to match the sound of the BB/RB piano as close as possible with one of my samples and play it myself. I've done the same thing with bass guitar on a few tunes.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 03/01/16 03:05 AM.
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