User Guide

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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Chordsheet Overview
The Chordsheet window in the Audio Chord Wizard shows the chords for the whole song on a single screen. This
allows you to click on a bar on the Chordsheet to jump to that area of the song.
You can mark sections of the song using part markers, and the sections will begin on a new line with a line space
between so they are clearly seen. So you can then also learn the form of the song, as you can see the various
sections (intro/verse/chorus/break) at a glance, or quickly jump to the any section simply by double clicking on that
part of the Chordsheet.
For this discussion, open up /Band-in-a-Box/Tutorials/Frontier.m4a.
You will now see the song, and the Chordsheet window in the Audio Chord Wizard is visible.
Play the song.
Locate the start of bar 1 on the waveform and click on the [Set Bar One] button.
You may have to stop the song and start over again to pinpoint the location, but
once you do the Audio Chord Wizard can accurately mark the rest of the bar lines.
You can insert your own bar lines by clicking on this button or by pressing the
Tab key. When a new bar starts, hit the [Tap Barline] button (or Tab key). This
is called “tapping in a bar line.”
Bar lines can be tapped in as the song is playing or when it is stopped. You’ll see that if you tap a bar line near to an
existing bar line the existing line will be moved to the location of your tap.
The first time you do that, the program will consider that point to be “bar 1.” Tap in a few more bar lines.
Click on the Chordsheet, and the music will jump to that location.
Now, let’s define some sections in the song.
If a bar begins a new section, click on the bar # on the Chordsheet, or press the P key to put in a part marker.
Pressing P again will change the part marker, and then turn it off.
Now the song is divided into sections, with space between each section, and each section starting on a new line.
To change the # of bars per row, or rows per screen, right-click or Control+click on the Chordsheet.