Originally Posted By: alan S.
In ballads there should be a more impressionistic feel not so concerned with just keeping time (like "After the Rain" at the very least if not wholly rubato sections a la ECM ballads)




I also want to clarify my comments about "rubato not suitable for Band-in-a-Box". If it's truly rubato, and the musicians are really stretching the time very fluidly, that's not really suitable for Band-in-a-Box. However, what you said above "a more impressionistic feel not so concerned with just keeping time", if it is in fact still "to the grid", but done in a way that's not really hammering home the downbeat, or the 2 & 4, etc., THAT is something that could still work in Band-in-a-Box. If that makes any sense...


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Tobin Frank (he/him)
PG Music Inc.