We are at a 'crossroads' of sorts. Band in a Box can't use riffs, fills, etc.

This should be in the RealBand section or Real Band and Beyond.

That's my point in all this, Band in a Box was made so you can pull out you laptop on a break, enter the chords for Sweet City Woman, and play it next up, and do a decent job of it.

The other stuff is for people who want to fiddle around and step enter a lick or whatever. I understand why you might do that, but I still don't get it. If as a one man show, I wanted that tune so bad, I'd just cue it as a break song. I know my rendition of Whiter Shade of Pale isn't just like the original. But we are back to having people who've not heard it for years come up and thank you, and on the other side the one in a hundred person who remembers the thing the way it was, and comes up and wants you to change bars 40 to 44 with this...that my friends is YOU. Not the audience.

That's the part I will never get....

Now if it's your original composition don't you write the whole thing? Because if it gets anywhere near published THEY will changed it big time.

John Conley
Musica est vita