BIAB lets you affect how a chord is played in a number of different ways - using rests, shots, holds, and pushes.

If you type a chord and put a single dot (period) after it, no instruments will play until you enter a chord without a dot after it.
But the cool thing is that you can tell it to "rest all instruments except" and then just put the letter of the instrument you want to play. So, if you just want the bass and drums to play (but no piano, strings, or guitar), then you can enter: A.bd (that means play the A chord, but rest all instrument except the bass and drums).

You also can do a shot, which is like a hit, but typing two dots after the chord name. So if you type A.. then then chord will play a quick hit with all instruments (about an eighth note), and then rest until another chord appears. Just like rests, you can designate excepted instruments. So: A..bd would play a hit with all instruments, then the strings, piano, and guitar would rest while the bass and drums play on.

A hold is just that. Instead of the instruments playing a syncopated pattern, it just holds the note until you type another chord. You add holds by typing three dots after the chord. Again, you can designate excepted instruments. So, A...bd would hold the notes for all instruments except the bass and drums, which would just play on normally.

This lets you achieve some nice effects in the music.

The instrument letters for the excepted instruments are:

D - Drums
P - Piano
G - Guitar
B - Bass
S - Strings

Now, pushes let you play a chord a little earlier than on the beat. There are two kinds of pushes - eighth note and sixteenth note. The eighth note push is achieved by entering a caret (^) in front of the chord and a sixteenth note push by entering a double caret (^^) in front of the chord.

Let's say you want to have a chord come in on the "and" of the fourth beat in a measure. All you need to do is enter the chord (for example, ^A) on the first beat of the next measure. The push backs it up an eighth note so as to play on beat 4-1/2 of the previous measure.

One thing about pushes is that you CANNOT play another chord in the original slot. In other words, if you push the first beat of a measure back to beat four and a half of the previous measure, you can't then play a different chord on beat one, since you've already used that slot to do the push.

I hope that made sense.

John

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