Mac,

Here is what I did. I chose a riff I liked, it was two bars, I made it into 4 bars for an intro. This riff had more than one instrument, guitar, drums, bass and I think piano (riff 088 in the guitar catagory). Then I changed the chorus to 1 and told it I wanted 30 measures. After the riff played it continued the same rhythm without the riff to the chord progression I made. I also put the riff in the middle for a turn around, continued the song and then used the riff for the ending. It worked perfectly and sounded great.

The problem is that it is not a style so I couldn't save it unless I just save it as the riff. The obvious problem there would be that you can't use it for any other song. Well, you can, but you wouldn't be able to use it if you were playing live as you would have to rebuild the entire song and you wouldn't have time to do that.

The problem with using the riff in Real Band is finding a style that will match it. I guess I would eventually find one but this seemed to easy I didn't even try it in RB. Seems like a waste of time and effort to put something in a program that can't be used. I just figured I was too stupid to use it!

I hope I have made myself clear so you can tell me if it can be done or not.

Debby