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Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features

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“Refresh Soloist” option (Shift+F7) is like telling the soloist “It's OK, you can play whatever you like, even if it's

something that you played 5 minutes ago.”

- The Soloist menu contains many options. It has all of the same editing options found in the Melody menu, so you

can treat the Soloist track as a 2nd melody track. Even if you don't plan to use the Automatic Soloist feature, you

can just use the Soloist track as a 2nd track for counter melodies, overdubs etc. The result; two melody tracks,

two solo tracks, or one melody and one solo track all at your disposal for any song, without having to resort to an

outboard sequencer.

Automatic Guitar Chord Solos – “The Guitarist”

With Band-in-a-Box, you can generate a guitar chord solo for any melody. Band-in-a-Box will intelligently arrange

the melody into a guitar chord solo by inserting real guitar voicings throughout the piece. You can select from

among many Guitarists to create your arrangement. And you can define your own Guitarists, choosing parameters

such as strum speed, types of voicings (Pop/Jazz), embellishments, and many more. You can easily make and

learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song!

Generate a Guitar Chord Solo

Load in a song with a melody in it. We suggest the song GIT_TEST that should be in your Songs folder. If it isn't

there, choose the song “Old Folks at Home” or any other song with a melody.

Open the Guitar window (Ctrl+Shift+G). Launch the Chord Solo function with

the [Ch. Solo] button, or select Melody | Generate Guitar Chord Solo.

Select Guitarist Window.

Once you press the Chord Solo button, you'll see the Select Guitarist window.

Here are the steps needed to generate your Chord Solo:

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