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If I were to sell individual songs, I'd make MIDI sequences. BiaB tracks are more generic than the tracks the sequence sellers make.

However, it's more economical to do that out of the USA.

In the 1990s when I was interested, I checked it out. In the USA, the seller has to pay for thousands of copies in advance, whether he/she ends up selling them or not. In most other countries, they pay the royalties as they sell them.

That may have changed since then, but I spend so much time in the BiaB aftermarket products, I don't have time to compile a big catalog of individual sequences.

Currently, Mrs. Notes and I are working on 2 new style disks and 5 new fake disks. We hope to have a release next year.

It takes thousands of hours to do this and do it to the point where we are proud of our work. We haven't even watched TV since 1990. Instead, we work on music. I'm not complaining, we like it that way.

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Hey Notes!

Ahh - I understand much better now! Thanks for your explanation!


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Originally Posted By: Notes Norton


Currently, Mrs. Notes and I are working on 2 new style disks and 5 new fake disks. We hope to have a release next year.



Can you give a hint as to which fake disks? I am always in the market!


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Currently, Mrs. Notes and I are working on 2 new style disks and 5 new fake disks. We hope to have a release next year.



Can you give a hint as to which fake disks? I am always in the market!

A huge Praise & Worship disk, a few in the Real Book Series and a Rock disk.

Style disks will be Country and Rock.

Of course, that will depend on how the fake disks turn out, and how soon the subcontractors we hire to pick the styles get them back.

I do not pick the styles for our fake disks. If we did, we would probably favor the Norton Music styles, because I know them the best, and that wouldn't be fair to the customer.

I tell the subcontractors to pick the best style for the song from all the PG and Norton styles available. I also say if a PG and a Norton style work equally well, pick the PG style, as our customers are more likely to have the PG style.

When the books come back, Mrs. Notes and I go through them together in real time, listening and checking every song, one at a time(we call it studio karaoke). We want to make sure that there are no typos (like a Cm for a Gm), the arrangement works, if a chord needs to be altered a bit to work, or anything else. Sometimes there are more chords in a measure than PG allows, and there isn't an appropriate EXPANDED style for the song, so we make our best guess as to which ones to include and which ones to exclude, but we try all the combinations anyway. Most of the time our first guess works, but sometimes it surprises us. On rare occasions, we will decide to use a style that is different from the one chosen. We want to make the disks as good as we can, after all, our name is on them.

Of course, the styles chosen by the subcontractor are only a suggestion. So many songs have been done in so many ways, sometimes picking one is hard. And if you don't like the style chosen, it's easy to change it.

Sometimes we have spent thousands of hours on a book, and found it wasn't good enough to have our name on the disk, so it never gets released. Actually it gets put in a limbo folder, hoping enough good styles will come along to revive the project.

Notes ♫

PS we are dong a Latin American fake disk too.

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The Norton disks are top notch. I bought the Realbooks and New Realbooks a long time ago and they are very well made. The Nortons know Band in a box so well, that you get all the complicated structures (think: Three Views of a Secret, Jaco Pastorius’ masterpiece in the New Realbook) and they work perfectly.

Sher music and other publishing companies should team up with Nortonmusic to get the melodies in there as well.

And… as I keep repeating, Pgmusic should step up their game so biab plays the chords correctly. Yeah, I’ve been saying it since the chord list got really long: 2001, if I recall correctly, and I’ll keep saying it. The Nortons have put in all the wonderful Bill Evans reharmonizations, but Band in a Box can’t play them properly.


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A huge Praise & Worship disk, a few in the Real Book Series and a Rock disk.

Style disks will be Country and Rock.

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Thanks for the update. I find your work to be exceptional and the styles chosen are usually right on as well. Thanks again.


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Thanks for your kind words.

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