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I hear what you are saying about not giving up. I wanted to do Back in Black by AC/DC(or any other AC/DC tune). Since they are my favorite band. I have decided to just put everything on the beat and call it a day. I want it to be my own version anyway.

I have been using Band in a Box for years just to practice playing over basic chord progressions. I was just trying my hand at doing a whole tune for once. Finding out real fast that anything that has upbeat progressions or more than four chords a measure is pretty much a no go. I am ok with that. Jazz standards are just as fun to play.

Maybe one day we will be able to do such things.


You can create a 'Back in Black' style, and you can kind of approximate the main riff if you want, using RealTracks with shots and pushes. I tested it out - maybe this will give you some ideas.

This is an even 8th hard rock style at 90 BPM. The RealTracks I chose are below. You might be able to find better ones closer to the tempo.

1000:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm HardRockLAFuzzyHeld Ev 120
1001:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm HardRockLAFuzzySync Ev 120
387:Bass, Electric, Metal Ev 085
RealDrums: RockHardLA^4-a:Snare, HiHat , b:Snare, Crash Ride

Prior to typing in the chords I just specified the song structure. There's an 8 bar intro, which is followed by an 8 bar verse and 8 bar chorus. Put an 'A' part marker at the start of the verse (bar 9), and a 'B' part marker at the start of the chorus (bar 17). etc..

After that I generated and froze the Drums track. In the mixer, the snowflake symbol next to the M and S buttons is the freeze button. The reason I did this is because I want it to ignore the pushes I'm about to enter.

Next I entered the chords like so:
|E5.. ^D5.. | ^A5.. |
The two dots is a shot, and the caret symbols are eighth pushes (chord plays before the beat). You can copy paste this several times, or you might put a variation at every 4th bar. The chorus is straightforward, with no pushes or shots.

Note - if you have a song in mind you can often use the Titles database to find an appropriate style - this can be accessed from the top-right corner of the StylePicker. In this case I didn't like the style it chose, but it was still useful as a starting point, giving me feel, tempo etc


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It's the drums. They just don't work. I always get four beats per bar no matter what I do. None of this works if you cant get two beats per bar.
Speed it up, slow it down, reduce, expand. Always four beats per bar.


You can set any RealDrums track to half-time. Open the RealDrums Picker and select it from the drop-down menu at the bottom...

Andrew
PG Music Inc.