I think this may be the section you want (i-----want a-----girl to-----call my—own) You will need to use voices with a quick attack and fairly quick natural decay like piano and guitar I think. Note the position and value of the rests. Hope this is some help Mike
If you are trying to do that with BiaB 'shots' you will need an EXPANDED style. I invented EXPANDED styles for situations like this. You can put up to 8 chords per measure and you can put a shot on both a particular beat and the 8th note before that beat.
I think this may be the section you want (i-----want a-----girl to-----call my—own) You will need to use voices with a quick attack and fairly quick natural decay like piano and guitar I think. Note the position and value of the rests. Hope this is some help Mike
thanks - yeah that stuff I already knew - it's what chord and [ .. ^ ^^ . etc] notation marks to insert I need!
If you are trying to do that with BiaB 'shots' you will need an EXPANDED style. I invented EXPANDED styles for situations like this. You can put up to 8 chords per measure and you can put a shot on both a particular beat and the 8th note before that beat.
One alternative is to use a less well known recording of the song as the basis for your song project. For instance, Ricky Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band released +++ THIS +++ country ballad version of the song.
Ok Notes has invented these expanded styles, which makes me wonder why hasn't PGmusic found a workaround over the long number of years that basically does the same thing, surely its not impossible to do?
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Ok Notes has invented these expanded styles, which makes me wonder why hasn't PGmusic found a workaround over the long number of years that basically does the same thing, surely its not impossible to do?
Notes has explained how to create your own expanded styles many times in the past. To summarize how I understand the idea: (1) Consider each Band-in-a-Box bar can be used like a spreadsheet cell. Then consider each cell can equal 1/2 a musical division or 1/2 a measure. In a "standard" Band-in-a-Box style a 60 bpm song would occupy about 15 bars while an "expanded" Band-in-a-Box style will require about 30 bars. (2) Double the bars means double the resolution. Where a "standard" style uses four beats and chords per bar (quarter note resolution) the "expanded" style allows for eight beats and chords per bar (eigth note resolution).
When Bob (Notes) Norton created expanded MIDI styles Band-in-a-Box did not offer half-time, double-time and triple time options. Those options help enable RealTracks work when users want to duplicate using an MIDI only expanded style.
All of this happened before I was a frequent forum visitor so my summary is likely not accurate.
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