User Guide

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
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Printing
Lead Sheet Style Printing
Your created songs can be printed out in the style of a lead sheet style. Most songs will fit on 1 page, so your
printout will look similar to a standard lead sheet. You can easily make and printout a custom fake book of all of
your tunes, and you can easily transpose parts to print out for trumpet /sax players etc. The printout includes title,
bar #s, composer, style, and copyright information. Prints using a scaleable True Type font and supports all MAC
compatible printers.
A lead sheet usually contains the chords, melody, and lyrics of a song, on a single page if possible. We have kept
the concept of Band-in-a-Box using 4 bars per line on the printout since Pop music is usually in 4 bar phrases. This
aligns these phrases on the beginning of a new line.
In addition to a lead sheet style printout, you can also print out any part of Band-in-a-Box, such as the Piano part, or
Guitar part, to practice your sight reading, or to learn the parts if you are learning to play that instrument.
Printing a song is done by pressing one of the [Print] buttons. This launches the Print
Options dialog box that lets you view the current settings, and then press the [OK – Print]
button.
Print out any combination of Chords, Notes, Lyrics, (or blank paper)!
You'll need to choose what to print out (notes, chords, lyrics, bar numbers) and what clefs to include (treble, bass).
You can print out the first chorus, last chorus, or the whole song. Margins are available, so you can make a left
margin to produce a printout to go into a 3-hole binder for example.
Auto-Fit onto 1 page
Band-in-a-Box will set the # staves per page for you. This will be set when you enter the Print Dialog box, or
change the range that you want to print (first /last chorus or whole song). This will be done to try to fit your printing
onto 1 page. If you're printing the whole song, it is unlikely that it will fit onto 1 page, so Band-in-a-Box will set to
the default 10 staves per page. You can over-ride this setting by typing in the # staves per page that you would like.
Note: Remember that the title on page 1 takes up 1 stave, so if you choose 10 staves, you will get the title + 9 staves on
page 1, and 10 staves on page 2.
Print Options Dialog Box