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Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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The “correct chords” for the song “Violet Song.MID.”
As you can see, by comparing the two sets of chords, the Chord Wizard got almost all of the chords correct in this
example. The Chord Wizard purposely avoids chords like “C13,” it will put a simpler “C7” instead, since this is
more like a typical lead sheet.
If you've read in the entire MIDI file, you have 103 bars of chords on the Chordsheet. This actually contains 3
choruses of the song. You might want to reduce that to a single chorus, by setting the chorus end of the song to bar
36, and then erasing the excess bars (after bar 36) by choosing Edit | Erase.
Examining the song that has been interpreted by the Chord Wizard.
You'll notice that the title (Violet Song), key (F,) and tempo (120) have been set to the values found in the file. Part
markers are not set; the Chord Wizard doesn't try to guess where part markers might be occurring. You need to put
the part markers in yourself. You also need to choose the style to use (a Jazz Swing style in this case).
If you examine the Melody track by opening the Editable Notation window and option clicking on some notes, or
menu Windows | List Editor Window (Ctrl+Shift+L), you'll notice that the Melody track contains notes from
Channel 4, which is what we specified in the Chord Wizard dialog.
Importing part of a MIDI file, or redoing a section of the Chordsheet.
Normally we'd want to import an entire MIDI file worth of chords. But if you only want to import some bars, you
can deselect the “Import Complete Song” checkbox, and then specify where to start in the MIDI file (i.e. “the # of
lead-in bars in MIDI file”) and what bar to start at in Band-in-a-Box (“Insert to BB starting at bar #”) and the # of
bars to import (“How many bars to import”).
For example, using the song “Violet Song.MID,” we could redo a section of the song using different settings (for
example, a chord resolution of 1 beat instead of 2 beats). If we were unhappy with the results at bar 7 and 8, we
could redo this by making the settings as follows:
Other Settings for the Chord Wizard