User Guide

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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Press [OK] to generate the Guitar Chord Solo.
You'll now see a message box confirming that a chord solo has been added.
Playing the Guitar Chord Solo
The playback will begin automatically, and you'll see the guitar voicings on the guitar neck. For example, at Bar 8,
the chord is a C#dim and Band-in-a-Box has voiced a Bb melody note with a 4-note guitar voicing of Bb, E, C#, and
G.
This particular solo will be played in a single position, because those are the parameters of this particular guitarist.
Other Guitarists will play in a range of positions (e.g. Guitarist #1), or in open position (e.g. Guitarist # 8).
As you listen to the solo, you'll notice the following:
1. Some of the notes are left as melody, and some are assigned to chords.
2. Wide varieties of guitar chords are used, including some advanced chords. All of them are popular chords
played by real guitarists – there are no theoretical chords.
3. The chords are strummed, to simulate a real guitar player.
4. The Track Type for the Melody has been set to Guitar, and the MIDI file will be saved with the Guitar Channels
(11-16) preserved which preserves the fret positions.
Note: All of these items can be customized in the Guitarist Maker, which is launched by the [Edit...] button in the Select
Guitarist dialog.
Redo Part of the Solo
Let's redo part of the solo at a higher fret position. This particular song GIT_TEST.MGU has 6 choruses, and the
last 3 choruses have a much higher range of soloing. Let's redo that part of the solo, using a higher fret position.
We'll press the [Ch. Solo] button again, de-select the auto-set position button, and choose the 12 position. Since we
only want to regenerate this for the choruses 4 to 6, we set the range to “Part of Song” and the range to start at
chorus 4, bar 1, and range of 96 bars. This will rewrite the solo, by first removing the existing guitar chord solo (if
any) and then generating a new one.