Instruction Manual

Chapter 12: Tutors, Wizards, and Practice Aids
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Delay Lowest Bass Note
Usually a bass player plays the root of the chord at or near the time when the chord
changes. But in solo piano playing or some bass styles, the bass doesn't state the root until later on, and this setting
should be set to “delayed” in a solo piano style of this type.
Primary Style
Set the primary style of the song to Jazz or Pop
using the Lead Sheet Method combo box.
Using the Chord Options Presets to quickly make settings
For the song “Violet Song.MID,” we know that this is a Jazz Swing type of song, so we
press the Preset Called “Jazz Standard.” By doing this, we see that the chord options
have then been set to Chord Resolution of 2 beats, no slash chords, walking bass, sus chords, 7
th
chords, and Jazz
lead sheet. These settings look OK for our Jazz song, if we wanted to customize it (e.g., to allow slash chords) we
could do it at this point.
So, to recap, using the Chord Wizard is a 3-step process.
1.
We've loaded in the song “Violet Song.MID.”
2.
Pressing the preset button called [Jazz Standard], we then looked at the Chord Options
settings for the various channels and they looked OK, so we didn't make any changes.
3.
We then press [INTERPRET CHORDS NOW] – this gets the
Chord Wizard to interpret the chords, and write them onto the Chord Sheet.
Once we've pressed the [Interpret Chords Now] button, we can see the results, by looking at the chord sheet. Here
are the chords that were interpreted.
So that we can see how well the Chord Wizard did, we can compare it to the “correct chords” of the song, input by a
musician listening to the song.