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Sort of new to this, haven't used BIAB in years then just last year bought it mostly for fun with guitar playing. Anyway I want to be able to create my own arrangements (solo guitar/solo jazz) of songs. I am not sure if I have the right question to find the right answer so I will just explain what I am trying to do to see if BIAB can do it, or I am going about this the wrong way. I pick a song (not in BIAB just a song I want to make an arrangement for), and then come to BIAB and start manually entering the melody I want in the guitar staff/notation editing mode. I use the melody channel because it seems like the right channel for this task, but I might be wrong about that. I want to be able as a next step to enter bass notes in the same area I am entering the melody (before you just hit me with a why do that? because I want to create chord-melody solo guitar arrangements with bass notes that is what I got this for). Problem is no where in the notation editing mode does it allow for notes played at the same time!?!? WHAT PG MUSIC!! that is lame...alright it seems the trick is to use the "chord editor" on the main view or the modal dialog to set chords, but then I have no control over my melody note sticking or the placement of the chord relative to the melody or if I just want a bass note on the down or off same time as the melody note.....it seems like a "just let us play our way" type of approach. Then I think ok I must be wrong here, the bass style generation is awesome anyway, can I just pull the bass line going on in the bass track into the melody somehow, or overlay the two when I print? Alas I haven't figured out a way to do that either. But even if I can, does this just basically mean I have no direct notation editing on chords? Please help this noob guys  . Thanks, Justin
Last edited by MustLearnMore; 04/25/19 07:05 AM.
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MustLearnMore,
Welcome to the forum and to Band-in-a-Box!
I don't use notation much so others will come along with more comprehensive explanations.
In my opinion you're approaching how to use the program wrong.
Band-in-a-Box (BiaB) uses the five instrument tracks, styles and the chord sheet to create backing tracks. The program uses styles to direct what happens in the bass, piano, drums, guitar and strings tracks. Each time you press the regenerate control the program writes new information into the five instrument tracks unless the track is frozen.
BiaB gives you more control over what is played in the melody, soloist and audio tracks. The MIDI data you write in melody or soloist does not automatically get overwritten when you press the regenerate control. The MIDI data can influence the data BiaB places in the five backing tracks but the backing tracks follow the chord chart.
There are workarounds to the limitations I've given but, they are workarounds. Since I don't often use the notation screen I'm not that familiar with them and will defer to other users more familiar with the notation screen.
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