[Harp-L] Band-in-a-Box Jam Track Tutorial -- 1 of 3



This is a Tutorial for the second-easiest 12-bar blues jam track using Band-in-a-Box.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: If you reply to this post, don't include the post itself in its entirety.  It's long.  Thank you.

The very easiest jam track is to type the chords for a 12-bar blues into the cells of the lower part of the screen (the part that looks like a spreadsheet) and press "Play".

The second-easiest jam track has a 4-bar introduction ("Take it from the five, boys!") followed by a standard 12-bar blues in the key of C.  We will select a style and make a minor adjustment to the instrumentation.  We will then transpose it to the key of E, and save our creation to a file.  The purpose of doing these particular things is to give you a bit of experience changing those things that *I think* you are most likely to want to know how to change first.

This "jam track" goes on for nearly forever:  There are some difficulties (okay, issues) associated with ending a song, and ending it gracefully. I'll address that – including questions of my own – in a later post.

Fire up BIAB.

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First we will enter the chords we want.

The first cell in the chord sheet should be highlighted, and probably shows a 'C' in it.  Type G7 (not case-sensitive), then press the tab key twice or click with the mouse so that the first half of cell/measure 2 is highlighted.

The default setting is two chords per measure.  We will be entering one chord per measure EXCEPT in measures 4 and 16, where we will enter two chords:

 1.   G7      2. F7       3. C7      4. C7    G7

 5.   C7      6. C7      7. C7      8. C7

 9.   F7     10. F7    11. C7    12. C7

13.   G7   14. F7    15. C7    16. C7    G7

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You can press 'Play' at any time to hear your creation so far.  Press 'Stop' or the space bar to stop.



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