Originally Posted By: Bob Calver
as a cowboy chord guitarist and veteran of years in 60s pop bands and folk bands i've never ever noticed jazz chords turning up unwanted in BIAB folk and pop styles. maybe its because i've set the preferences the way i like - no embellishments and simple arrangements.


Have you tried creating a song with a chord change in Biab? Did you download the examples I posted earlier? Others did and were able to duplicate what I'm seeing. I have my preferences set for no embellishments and simple arrangements too. I've followed every step everyone suggested in this thread. There was either no change or it made the problem worse. I'll be 50 in a few weeks. I've been playing rhythm and lead guitar in country, oldies, and rock bands since I was 13 as well as recording all these years as well. Not sure what any of that matters, but since we have the tape measures out . . .

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this thread started out with a genuine problem in BIAB - a key change where the RealTracks players used 7ths the way live musicians would do seeing a B chord in the key of A. for my three chord songs i use the root, sub dominant and dominant chords - and if i don't like the dominant seventh in some places i don't use it. thread drift seems to suggest that BIAB won't do as it's told completely out of context of the original post.


No, nothing has drifted, you just don't understand what you are reading or you do and are just being snarky. The problem is still the same ... BiaB is adding different chords than what are entered even if you set preferences to ignore embellishments and tell BiaB you are changing keys so it won't use "7ths the way live musicians would do seeing a B chord in the key of A." as you say. Technically BiaB shouldn't be interpreting a B in the key of A because the key is being set to B. You can do that by going in to the bar settings at the point of the key change.

Only if you're a pretentious douche with no feeling for the piece you are playing or you are told to for creative purposes would you ever go in to the second half of a traditional country song playing jazz 7th's. If the program can't recognize a key change has been set and the fact no embellishment settings are set then it needs to be fixed.

That and the fact that tech support demanded I show proof of purchase before helping in any way and once I did they stopped communicating with me. That's not right no matter how you slice it. Especially for such an expensive product.

Thanks for the input Bob.