Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Yeah... I was going to suggest the solo accompaniment styles as well.

The one down side to BB/RB is that you can not get it to play a specific melody as was shown in your video. BB/RB will play the chords you direct it to play but the melody it plays will be a "hit or miss" and usually, it's on the "miss" side of things.

All is not lost though. If you have some basic piano keyboard skills, or even midi programming skills, you can easily find a midi piano that sounds similar in tone and character, and insert those parts yourself.

By using a good DAW that allows audio editing that's easy to do.... you can create just about anything you need.

In this song... Fools Errand The intro was actually created by BB/RB and I simply faked the playing of that part in the video. The section I created was further into the song. My part starts at 3:34 thru 4:03. This part is a midi piano playing a sampled piano adjusted to match the tone of the BB/RB piano.

All of the piano solo accompaniment styles will provide a usable solo piano part for a vocalist to sing against. If you're looking to create original melodies, that may take a bit of thinking "outside the box" but I have discovered that with BB/RB, you are generally only limited in what you want to accomplish, by your imagination.


I've experimented a bit with it for the last half to full hour now (time flies once things start moving smile ) and I see what you mean.

I can get great... 'strumming along', for lack of a better word, but it's true it's only the chords (and some embellishment) and the 'right hand' never really plays the actual melody.

I can live with it for now, for what I need, but a more dedicated 'single man piano' full-song sound would definitely be more ideal.
Anything a single person can realistically do on a piano (and which I can't do myself since I sadly have very little skills in this direction)

Thanks for the help! I'm definitely getting much better results now than before I asked this question smile
BIAB is almost like an instrument itself; learn it, master it, and then it will reward you with good sounding music smile

Last edited by JEL; 10/22/16 03:19 PM.
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