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Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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Using the Chord Options Presets to make settings for Violet Song.MID.
For the song “Violet Song.MID,” we know that this is a Jazz Swing type of song,
so we press the preset called “Jazz Standard.”
By doing this, we see that the chord options have then been set to Chord Resolution of 2 beats, no slash chords,
walking bass, sus chords, 7
th
chords, and Jazz lead sheet.
These settings look OK for our Jazz song; if we wanted to customize it (for example to allow slash chords) we could
do it at this point.
So, to recap, using the Chord Wizard is a 3-step process.
1.
We loaded in the song “Violet Song.MID.”
2.
Pressing the preset button called “Jazz Standard,” we then looked at the
Chord Options settings for the various channels and they looked OK so
we didn't make any changes.
3.
We then press the [INTERPRET CHORDS NOW] button
– this gets the Chord Wizard to interpret the chords and
write them to the Chordsheet.
Once we've pressed the [INTERPRET CHORDS NOW] button, we can see the results by looking at the
Chordsheet. Here are the chords that were interpreted,
Chord Wizard results – interpreting from “Violet Song.MID.”
So that we can see how well the Chord Wizard did, we can compare it to the “correct chords” of the song, input by a
musician listening to the song. You can see these by loading in the song “Violet Song.MGU.”