(UPDATE 3/27/2021: New Rev A with a stronger bass guitar).

YouTube link: 2020 Lament

This is my first published tune created using Band in a Box, dedicated to all who have suffered during the current pandemic. (I've had friends and family who were seriously impacted by the virus).

This tune started out as an experiment, where I borrowed a chord progression invented for a country-style waltz I recently co-wrote with one of the members of a contradance band I'm in. I had a feeling those chords would work equally well in a country-style 4/4 ballad. I think they certainly do.

The style chosen for this instrumental was _ALLISF1.Sty Medium Country Ballad w/ Fiddle, at a tempo of 120 bpm.

Real Tracks used in this style:

~519: Bass, electric
~522: Acoustic finger picking guitar
~405: Acoustic strumming guitar
~618: Fiddle, background (Wanda Vick I believe)

Real Drums: Nashville Even8

I had planned on adding my own fiddle melody to these tracks, as a way of practicing improvisation, but the fiddle background track proved sufficient. I spent quite a bit of time piecing together fiddle phrases generated by Band in a Box into a quasi-melody. I'm not sure I could add anything of my own that would substantially improve the music.


Last edited by BryMusic; 03/07/21 05:49 AM.
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