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Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box

Select the Key

Click on the key select list and change the key of your song instantly. Click on “YES” to the

“OK to transpose Lead sheet?” prompt and Band-in-a-Box will automatically transpose the

entire song.

Quick Song Settings

These are enhancements for entering songs quickly. Typing special words, instead of chord names, will make the

following settings:

begin <Enter> - sets the beginning of the chorus to the current bar

chorusend <Enter> - sets the end of the chorus to the current bar

end <Enter> - sets the end of the song to the current bar

tkc <Enter> - sets key signature to C, tkbb would set it to Bb

trc <Enter> - transposes song to key of C

t125 <Enter> - sets tempo to 125

Entering Chords

Type in the chords

The chords we will enter are F for 1/2 a bar, Bb for 1/2 a bar, and C7 for a bar.

Mouse click on the first cell in the Chordsheet and type in the chord symbol. The chord name will appear in the

chord box. Press the return key to enter the chord on the Chordsheet and advance the chord cell ½ bar. To enter

two chords in a chord cell, type the chord names separated by a comma, e.g., f,bb. Continue until the song is

complete.

This song will have no intro, and the chorus will be 32 bars long. The chordsheet we want to end up with will look

something like this:

Copying and pasting a section of chords

Since many songs repeat the same sequence of chords throughout, a faster method to enter a song into Band-in-a-

Box is to COPY and PASTE the repeating chords.

Highlight a section of chords by dragging the mouse over them while holding the left mouse button. The area will

be blackened/highlighted.

Press Cmd+C, or select the Edit | Copy menu item. The highlighted area will be copied to the clipboard. It can

then be pasted back into the Chordsheet at any location, and reused as many times as you like.

Move the highlight cell to the bar that you want to paste the chords into, using the arrow keys or the mouse.

Paste the copied section with press Cmd+V command, or select the Edit | Paste menu item. The chords will then

appear at the new location. These features are also available from the Control+click or right-click contextual menu.

Chordsheet Contextual Menu

The Chordsheet has a contextual menu that opens with Control+click or a right-click on the highlighted bar in the

Chordsheet area. This menu is another convenient way to access the features for editing song arrangements.

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