BiaB is also my personal choice out of the two for:

*Practicing

*Experimenting with chord changes, accompaniments, songwriting, etc. -- often working with smaller pieces such as 8 or 16 bar phrases rather than an entire fully fleshed out song.

*Teaching -- creating customized drills, practice regimens with accompaniment, etc. for students is a breeze with BiaB. I generally then make an mp3 plus a music sheet printout to hand to the student rather than having them mess with BiaB -- because I'd rather they spent that time practicing the Drill of the Month, as it were.

*Arranging -- The BiaB Harmonizer is still one of my favorite "gotos" for rapidly fleshing out a section part from a single line.

*Live Performance Accompaniment -- This one depends upon what you are after in your Performance, but I still greatly prefer the slightly different accompaniment generations BB offers over the static playback of the same lines every time.

*Ear Trainer -- Use it. Here is the one place where I encourage students to also open and use their copy of BiaB -- daily. Ten minutes a day with the Interval Trainer is the fastest way I've found to take someone from zero to "big ears" in the shortest amount of man-days.

Just a short list of uses for BiaB other than making a recording, which is what many seem to *only* view this wonderful program as being about.


--Mac

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