Here's an instrumental that I recorded using the Reason DAW.

One thing that's great about Reason is that it has a really nice bundle of plugins - amps, effects, drum modules with loops and individual kit pieces (which I have used for really specific parts).

I wrote the basic structure on a clean guitar part (mostly in G major, but a modulation to A major, and an abrupt shift to Bflat major for some color. I was listening to the song "Two Rivers" by Jeff Beck, and I noticed how at the end of a phrase, he would bend up to a note slowly, without picking it, so you'd hear the chord tone at the end of the bar, with much less volume, so it kind of "drifts" into the bar - and I was trying to do something similar, instead of just picking everything. As I'm usually hung up on technique, it's nice to do "less", and unlearn all those rules I have somehow imposed upon myself.

I could not find my way around BiaB well enough to find any parts that worked - so I played everything by hand. I am thinking that using BiaB for newer projects will work best if I start the project in BiaB, and then import those tracks into Reason, rather than try to find specific parts in BiaB that need to exactly match what I've come up with.

OK I have rambled on too much - thank you for listening and for your comments - Randy

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