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The first idea sounds close to what I want, because unlikely I will use the same "Phrase" again in other songs. However, can I also change the drum/bass/piano parts instead of just the melody or solo parts? Say edit in the Part's MIDI editor?



In BIAB, only the Melody and Soloist edits or notes entered will "stick" because the other instrument parts are the "autoaccompaniment" parts that are generated by the chosen Style file. Each time you reload the song or hit the Play button, any edits you make to those other tracks will disappear and be replaced with notes generated by the style engine.

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The second idea, although I will not going to use the same phrase again, but I can edit the style and keep it just for this song. How about based on variation A and B, I edit the bars (say bar 7 and 8) with the phrase on all parts, then save it as variation C or D and use it where I need. Will this worked?



That *may* work. What I do instead is to edit the style and then save it under a new name. I then use the Style Change at Bar command to simply switch to that particular style when needed. I find this method to be good for the reason that, first, it does not overwrite the existing pgmusic style in case I need it again, second, because a lot of "riff based" parts can be so specific as to not need a full style with lots of cells and weighting in it, just the riff and maybe a slight variation of the riff in a following cell. I just prefer to use Style Changes rather than multiparts. Maybe because I'm more familiar with that, since we didn't get multiparts until relatively recently.



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