Doing some work for a friend who wants to know how BIAB would mock up Field of Gold. So I tell him it starts with finding a style of which BIAB syle pick identifies 5 candidates. But Field of Gold is coded as Ballad, 4/4 ev8, 105. But the styles it selects are all half that tempo and sw8.
So what gives? Does anyone know how this works?
By the way, although not relavent at this time, but I am listening to Eva Cassidy's version. Not Sting.
Search ballads in the tempo range. 4/4 time even. Look for styles that are finger picking guitar and or piano based. You can always swap the real tracks and mute what you don't want.
Don't forget that folk styles will also work for this song. They tend to be finger picked guitar and sparse.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
Years ago I made a track for playing live with ZZPOPBAL.sty - long before we had heard of realtracks! Maybe if you select that then select 'similar styles'that will cut down the options to a manageable number
Eva really did something special with this song. BiaB can produce something credible to sing over, but of course not as magical.
Like Guitarhacker's approach. To provide a bit more detail, I would 1. Tap in a tempo based on the opening 2. Choose an acoustic guitar fingerpicking style that's close in tempo and not busy 3. Enter the chords and include slash chords to follow her bass line choices. Refer to a chord site if needed, knowing they are frequently...imprecise. 4. Treat the electric guitar solo as another vocal and just provide the acoustic guitar backing 5. Adjust tempo where Eva slows it down at the end
Still won't sound like Eva though.
Good luck!
DC Ron BiaB Audiophile Presonus Studio One StudioCat DAW dual screen Presonus Faderport 16 Too many guitars (is that a thing?)
Took some of your suggestions. Here is a quick and dirty, but you guys all know what BIAB can do. I actually made this "demo" for my other forum. [video:youtube]https://youtu.be/m_hMsUysl9w[/video]
That's a cool demo and I really like how you showed several variations. You may want to also try RT 3545, a "CelticBalladSoft" fingerpicking style. Your video was a bit pixelated, so I couldn't read all the RT names. But I don't think you demoed 3545.
Eva uses a capo way up the fretboard on this one so her sound is not easy to find in BiaB. There are several "high" fingerpicking styles, but none fit to my ear.
Well known arrangements like this one are impossible to replicate. But if you think about how Eva reinterpreted Sting's original and made it something even better (opinions will vary), BiaB can certainly do that...
...with effort.
DC Ron BiaB Audiophile Presonus Studio One StudioCat DAW dual screen Presonus Faderport 16 Too many guitars (is that a thing?)
Glad to see you are heading in the right direction with this, but regarding the selection offered by Style Picker, I often find similarly strange options when searching. Can anyone shed light on this behaviour?
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