(NOTE: You can select a style that may be 140 bpm and change it to 100 bpm, which can still sound appropriate, but some styles do not sound as lively or robust when altering the bpm too significantly.) You can choose from MIDI or Real Styles, the latter of which I prefer since it sounds far more authentic, but you can change any instruments (and their tracks accordingly). This can be narrowed down if you know the feel (e.g., 4/4 versus even 16ths) and bpm – once you filter in your needs, then the choices reduce significantly, to dozens. I may choose country (since that genre covers a lot more ground since the days of Johnny Cash), certain areas of jazz or pop, which brings in the choices to several hundred styles.
For instance, if I want to develop an easy rock song, I won’t dabble into the metal selections, nor bossa nova, for instance. Generally, presuming I have a riff, melody or song idea, I will choose a ‘style’ in BIAB, based on my needs. To summarize the demo, there are a number of steps that I take when working with BIAB, and to get my creative juices flowing (I’ll get to the 2021 updates shortly). The demo below goes over the various ways in which I use the program, as a jammer and music composer. BIAB has crossed leaps and bounds ever since, with higher quality audio output, the annual creation of new styles (e.g., sub-genres of blues, metal, country, jazz, etc.) and, as important, the inclusion of RealTracks (e.g., rather than a MIDI piano, imagine an actual sampled grand piano). BIAB fits that niche perfectly, which is why it’s so popular among home musicians, but also music developers. Even back then I found BIAB sufficient to maintain my playing interests, since I had no aspirations of playing in a band, doing gigs, etc., but wanted a band in which to compose and jam.
Or Download right now and Get the DVD for only $18.24 more (to cover manufacturing and shipping costs).Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) has been around for about three decades, beginning with a basic Windows DOS platform (remember those days?) and working with MIDI instruments and signals. I’m sure you’ll agree, this over-delivers extremely high value for an extremely low price of $127.00 for the download or $127.00 plus shipping for the DVD (final price depends on your shipping speed choice).
Surely, you would rather be playing and getting better than doing all of that wouldn’t you?Īdd to that all of the time saving, organizational, convenience functions and features of having all of this in a software database, so that you save even more time and money that you can spend on your craft instead. You can’t even put a dollar value on that, even working for a penny an hour! What if you had to take the enormous amount time and effort to find all of this and put it together? That’s assuming that you could find all of them. What if you had to find, then purchase the audios for, let’s say $0.99 each? What if you were to purchase the original fake books in all 4 transpositions? You’ll be able to access all kinds of critical information about the songs, the artists, composers, the original broadway shows or movies, etc.
The Web Links Resource page turns this into a full blown Jazz Encyclopedia. Not only is your jazz “sheet music” quickly available at the touch of a button, each song includes the original audios! So much better than PDF’s, paper books, or loose sheet music pages! This software was created for jazz musicians like you who wanted to have their jazz fake books available in a digital database, allowing you to instantly find or sort your collection of lead sheets / jazz charts by a variety of options. The Real Book Software merges the classic Real Book charts and recordings into an easy to use software database, loaded with features to make it an indispensable resource in any “practicing” musician’s arsenal. The timeless jazz fake book has re-emerged into the digital age.