Upgrade Manual

Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist'50
Select the Main Guitar Position to
use.
BB has a setting called Auto-Set that will set the main guitar position for
the solo for you, based on the key signature. For example, in the key of C, BB
will choose the 5
th
position as the best position for the chord solo to be played.
But you can over-ride this, for example if you wanted the solo to be in the 12
th
position, you could de-select the "Auto-Set" and then set the guitar position to
12
th
position.
In case you already have a guitar
track that has guitar channels (for example if it was already played on a guitar
controller as a single string guitar part), then you might want to tell BB not to
change the guitar positions of the notes that it finds. Normally you'd want to set
the "OK to change existing guitar channels" to true.
Press OK to generate the Solo.
To illustrate this, let's generate a guitar solo to an existing Melody. We could
pick any Melody for this, let's pick the file GIT_TEST.MGU which should be
found on your BB directory. This file has a single melody., with no chords in it.
Let's generate a Chord Solo for the song GIT_TEST.MGU
Press the Guitar Chord Solo button to launch the "Guitarist".
Select Guitarist #2 "Jazz Guitar, single
position".
Make sure that the Range is set for "Whole Song" and that the Preferred Fret
Position is set to =5 – this should be the defaults, unless you've changed them.
Press OK to generate the solo.
You'll then see a dialog box like this ...