Originally Posted By: Dean741
It's puzzling that BIAB doesn't support setting scales for certain bars, as musicians think in scales all the time.

Maybe by creating a muted melody track to define a scale for some bars could work?

BIAB does use the melody to influence harmony.

As for not supporting a scales-based approach, I am guessing it's more that BIAB was developed around the end of the 1980s for jamming on jazz fakebook tunes. As I recall (having played as a pro from the early 1960s) the use of scale-based improv such as Abersold wasn't yet as popular at that point.

This would be a good topic for a post you could make in the Wishlist Forum. I agree, there are now two full generations of jazz players who have grown up thinking primarily in terms of scales. Not that we didn't, but it was a different emphasis.

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