User Guide

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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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.
Revisit the Reharmonize dialog, and try generating a new chord progression, in a new Genre.
For example, “EZ listening (Pop)” will
generate a Pop style chord progression, very different from the Jazz chords in the Bossa version.
Reharmonize Part of a Song
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 press the Re-Harm button, but this time choose
“Part of Song” and under “Set Range” enter Bar 1,
Chorus 1, and the # bars as 2.
Here are two of the possible variations the Re-Harmonist has suggested for the first two bars.
See a List of Possible Reharmonizations
This could also be done with the menu command Windows | Chord Reharmonist Dialog (choose your own).
In the Reharmonize melody – new chords for 2 bars of the melody dialog you can choose from a list of
reharmonizations for any 2 bar segment of the song.
Use the feature interactively by displaying a menu of possible chord progressions for a portion of the melody, and
audition them to choose the best one using the “Bar Reharmonist.” This allows you to hear some new chord
progressions for existing melodies, or brand new progressions for tunes without chords.