I use Band-in-a-Box to write ALL THE TIME.

Here is how:

All of my life, I have written many of my best songs by being in a band, and going into long JAMs. After jamming for a while, you will find something you like and run with it, like an inspiring riff, or a new chord progression, a novelty--something FRESH. The muse of music is fickle, and she craves the unexpected. Much more than any other art form, I think.

So, if you DO NOT have a band to jam with you can jam with BIAB demos, see a clever chord progression, find a cool sound or beat, and run with it. Then, depending on your skill level you can add your own stuff. I almost always add some live guitar, and keyboards or whatever to the Real Tracks because I am a musician. I use Band-in-Box as a band, exactly how it sounds.

This approach works wonders for me. If I just sat there with a guitar on my lap strumming some chords, I would come up with a good song once in a while but then get repetitive.

Music, to me, is all about jamming and looking for inspiration inside a jam.

For me the jamming aspect, which BIAB provides, is 100 percent of it--if not 110% of it.

David Snyder
Songwriter/Renaissance Man
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