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Susan Tucker <novice@...>
Steve,
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In the new age vernacular, I feel your pain. A couple of observations from a long time BIAB user: IMHO, the root of your problem is that you've mistaken BIAB for a notation program. It's not. It's an auto-accompaniment tool, which supports a minimal set of notation for Lead Sheet printing. That notation support is, uh, idiosyncratic in some cases buggy in others. It often handy for me, but if you want to be able to do key changes, have accidentals display in a conventional manner, have second endings, specify precise note values, rests, ties, dots, etc.... you need a notation program. I have been pleased no end by Noteworthy Composer, an inexpensive notation program: http://www.ntworthy.com/ Once you have the melody entered in either program, it's relatively straightforward to export it as a MIDI file and ship it to the other program. Of course, you'll lose the formatting in that case, but for example you could use a melody exported from NWC to play with a BIAB auto accompaniment. You'd have to enter the chords twice: as text in NWC, and in the chord window of BIAB. ********************** About practicing with your personal library of music. What I often do, if I have a lead sheet from another source, is just enter the chords in BIAB and the read from the lead sheet while BIAB plays. Better yet, I don't enter the chords but find the tune in the collection of stuff I've downloaded from the web. ********************** Anyway, good luck, and I hope this helps a little. Susan Tucker
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M. Steven Ginn <sginn@...>
Hi Susan,
thanks for your response IMHO, the root of your problem is that you've mistaken BIAB for aI understand its not a notation program as I have Finale for that. And I am not looking for all the bells and whistles that you can get with a notation program (like second endings, etc.). But, if PG music is going to include notation functionality, it should at the very least include some fundamental features. First, making a key change is not even just a notation issue and as an auto-accompaniment tool, modulating keys should be very necessary. Then when you add in the other capabilities like melodist and soloist, it is one thing to generate notes based on the chords (which I assume that it does) but it sounds kind of funny when the key doesn't change to reflect the modulation. Second, since music is fundamentally tied to "time", if you can't control the time element of a melody line that you enter with basic elements like rests, ties, dots, etc. (and I'm not talking about codas, repeat endings, tacets, etc. and various other time related features) then it renders the program from this standpoint virtually unusable. Once you have the melody entered in either program, it's relativelySo if I understand correctly, then the most accurate way to do this, is to create a melody line (exactly) in a notation program. Then export that to BIAB where you add the chords (and lyrics if you like, but I haven't gotten to that point yet). From there you should have a somewhat useful compilation closely resembling the original song, assuming you can find a decent style to make it sound real. Then finally, if you want to use this song and print out lead sheets, you need to take this back into a notation program again, to clean it all up so that the band members can follow it. **********************This sounds like a great idea. I guess I was just hoping to prevent double entry into BIAB and into the notation app for the lead sheet. **********************Thanks for the help! Steve
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