One working definition of that would be any Song saved with a Blues style.
Another working definition of that would be any song saved with metadata Genre of 'Blues', except that such seemingly does not exist! (unlike Jazz, Pop, Country)
One working definition of that would be any Song saved with a Blues style.
Another working definition of that would be any song saved with metadata Genre of 'Blues', except that such seemingly does not exist! (unlike Jazz, Pop, Country)
I'm not sure that there is a filter feature available that only lists songs that contain any thing related to a Blues (or other genre) Style. Others may know more.
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Using the Song Picker feature, you could point the folder location to your RealTracks Demo folder and then use the Filter String "Blues" - for me, this resulted in 763 demo songs being listed.
Resource:
Our Blues RealTracks Sets are: RealTracks Set 10: All Blues (Shuffle) RealTracks Set 30: Blues (Slow Swing) RealTracks Set 31: Blues (Slow Even 8ths) RealTracks Set 32: Blues (Fast Even 8ths) RealTracks Set 44: Blues Guitar and Organ RealTracks Set 86: Blues Rock RealTracks Set 140: Texas Blues-Rock Shuffle RealTracks Set 170: Texas Blues-Rock Slow Groovin' 128 RealTracks Set 175: Texas Blues-Rock Smokin' Blues Sax RealTracks Set 189: Blues Baritone Sax with Gary Smulyan RealTracks Set 209: Rockin' Blues Baritone Sax with Gary Smulyan RealTracks Set 243: Blues Baritone and Resonator Guitars RealTracks Set 245: Brent Mason - Country Blues Rock and More RealTracks Set 267: More Blues Blues with Brent and Mike RealTracks Set 280: Americana - Gritty Blues & Rockabilly RealTracks Set 299: Rootsy Blues Guitar & Piano RealTracks Set 303: Blues Harp with LD Miller RealTracks Set 304: Blues Shuffle Horn Section RealTracks Set 309: More Blues with Sol Philcox RealTracks Set 332: More Blues RealTracks Set 334: Jazz Blues Comping and Soloing RealTracks Set 345: Bluesy Baritone RealTracks Set 353: Fusion Soloing, Lowdown Blues RealTracks Set 354: Minor Blues, Jazz
I get similar results (739 items), though many of them are duplicates.
So, do I understand correctly that the BIAB distribution contains actual song files (.SGU, .MGU) provided for the purpose of demo'ing the Realtracks located here:
C:\bb\Demos\RealTracks - Demos
and that these are effectively complete songs available for the user to use and/or repurpose as desired?
Certainly this seems like a resource I'll not quickly exhaust!
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FWIW, as a general purpose ability, I think it would be a fine addition to the Song Picker to allow users to search for Songs (wherever they are) based on the style genre of the Style stored with the Song.
FWIW, as a general purpose ability, I think it would be a fine addition to the Song Picker to allow users to search for Songs (wherever they are) based on the style genre of the Style stored with the Song.
Yes, definitely agreed. My understanding is that the Song Picker currently finds songs containing the selected word, not the internally used style genre. A good one for the wishlist, sj1?
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