You press F5 at the return bar and select the original style. There is a small gotcha that I'll mention in a minute.

Lets say you want to make a song using two styles that are similar such as _DIXMCLS (dixieland with a clarinet solo) and _DIXMGTS (dixieland with an acoustic guitar solo). The clarinet will be the highlight instrument for most of the song but the acoustic guitar will be the solo instrument for eight bars. Select _DIXMCLS as the original song style. When you want the acoustic guitar to start (lets say bar 9), press F5 to open the bar settings window and press either the .STY button to open the StylePicker window or Open to open a Windows Explorer window and select the _DIXMGTS style. At bar 17 press F5 and reverse the process by selecting the original style, _DIXMGTS.

One of the wonders of Band-in-a-Box is it will automatically perform cross fades and make the necessary adjustments for the transitions to sound natural! The program does much of the background work you would have to do if you were cutting and pasting in any other program.

Now the gotcha. There maybe a time when you want a song to use both 3/4 and 4/4 styles. When that happens you MUST use the 4/4 style first. When a song starts in 3/4 time many users add an extra bar to the beginning of the song, start with a 4/4 style on bar one and mute all instruments. Than use F5 at bar two to switch to a 3/4 style and select "back to normal" volume change.

Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK
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