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Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial12

Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial

Quick-Start Tutorial For Version 9 Upgrade

The full description of the new features in Version 9 of Band-in-a-Box are

provided elsewhere. This tutorial is a

quick-start

tour of the new features in

Version 9.

Band-in-a-Box: Overview

It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of

Band-in-a-Box. If not, here is a brief "primer".

Band-in-a-Box is an

automatic accompaniment program. Type in the chords to any song (like C or

Fm7b5) , pick a style, and press

PLAY

. Band-in-a-Box (or "BB" as it often

referred to) then automatically generates a full backing arrangement of piano,

bass, drums, guitar and strings. This allows you to, by typing in the chord

progressions, quickly build up a library of songs. Over the years BB has added

new features, such as a Notation Window, Notation Printout, Melody track,

auto-Harmonization and a StyleMaker allowing you to create your own styles.

With recent releases of BB (version 7/8), we added major new features called

"The Soloist" and "The Melodist". BB can, using the Soloist, automatically

generate a professional quality solo improvisation along to any chord

progression. This is written to the Soloist Track. The Melodist creates songs

from scratch, including Chords, Melodies and even a Title.

Explore BB Version 9.0

OK, let's begin to explore BB version 9.0.

We'll begin the tutorial in earnest when we get a song playing with the new

guitar, audio, lyric, style selection and guitar features. But first, let's just look

around the main screen.

Boot up the program, and look at the main screen

There are several new areas visible on the main screen:

•

New Buttons for Version 9

•

New Menu Items

•

New Windows

There are new audio features, allowing you to record an audio track along

to any song.

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