Originally Posted By: David Snyder
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 said pretty much what I was going to say. Except, I was always a lousy musician and played only in a few bad garage bands as a teen. So, for me, BIAB is like having, for the first time in my life, a great band to inspire creativity. I sometimes have an idea which pops into my head and find or create a band from BIAB to bring it to life. Other times, I go fishing and just play demos for the Real styles. I hear a musical phrase or band sound that just hits me and I'm off. I write most of my songs this way over the past several years. I am SOOOOOOO thankful for this product.