User Guide

Chapter 3: Band-in-a-Box 2007
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Play the file that you have generated. Notice the “Bossa” style of chord progression, with 2-5
progressions, and other typical Bossa chords like a G7 for 2 bars in the key of F.
Now let’s use the Reharmonist in an “interactive mode” where it gives us choices of various chord progressions at
each bar. Let’s see if we can interactively improve on the chord progression, according to our own tastes.
The first 2 bars generated originally are:
Make sure that the currently highlighted cell is bar 1. Now we press the Reharmonist button, but choose the first
menu item Reharmonize Melody for Current Bar.
We then see a dialog with a menu of possible chord progressions for the first 2 bars.
With the Preview on Double-Click item selected, you can double-click on any
suggested chord progression
and hear how it would sound.
By listening, there are a couple of nice ones for the first 2 bars.
Or
We can choose one of those, and then press the +2 button to move on to bar 3, where we might choose to leave the
existing chord progression alone. We can continue this process, or improve any section of the song in a similar
manner.
Revisit the Reharmonize dialog, and try generating a new chord progression, in a new Genre. For example,
“Country/Bluegrass 16ths” will generate a Bluegrass style chord progression, very different from the Jazz chords in
the Bossa version.