User Guide

Chapter 11: Wizards, Tutors, and Fun
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Note that the program has analyzed the melody, and decided that the key should be F (this is independent of any key
that was already set in the song).
Now press “OK – Reharmonize.”
You will then have an entire chord progression written for the song, in a Bossa Nova style.
The Chord Progression generated is different every time, so the one that you get will be different from this one.
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.
This dialog can also be opened from the menu command Windows | Auto Generate Chord Reharmonization.
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.