User Guide

Chapter 12: Tutors, Wizards, and Practice Aids
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One button access to many other PG Music educational programs and lessons.
Most of these items are “add-on” products, available separately, and are not
included in the Band-in-a-Box program. If you have these items installed to your
hard drive, the Practice Window will find them if they are installed them to the
default directories, and if not, you will be able to point the program to the location
of the program, which will be remembered in future sessions.
For items that you don’t have, you can choose to display or not display them on-
screen using the “Show add ons if N/A (not available)” setting.
More information about all of the add-on programs can be found at www.pgmusic.com/practice.htm
Making and Using Practice Folders
If you are preparing for a performance or a jam session with friends, you likely have a list of songs that you are
working on. Let’s say they are in a folder called “c:\Bob’s Tunes”
Click on the Folder icon. You’ll then see a menu that lists a Manage Folders submenu, allowing you to
create/remove Practice Folders.
This is list of all Practice Folders defined (there likely won’t be
any to start with, so you can add them using the Manage Folders
menu command). Add a folder that you use frequently to this
list.
Note: Practice Folders are limited to 200 songs, because they display on a menu for quick access. So don’t use this
feature for folders with hundreds of songs, use the Song List dialog for that.
After the list of Practice Folders, you see a list of “Favorite Folders” – these are the
folders that you have visited recently.
Once you have selected a folder, you then press the [Songs] button, and you’ll see a
pop-up menu of the file names for that folder, with the current song having a check
mark. Load in a song by choosing the menu item.
Ear Training Tutor
Ear training is an important exercise for all musicians. Now you can practice your ear training with help from Band-
in-a-Box. In addition to the common interval exercises (perfect 4th, minor 2nd, etc.), learning to “play-by-ear” for