User Guide

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features
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melody tracks, two solo tracks, or one melody and one solo track all at your disposal
for any song, without having to resort to an outboard sequencer.
Automatic Guitar Chord Solos – “The Guitarist”
With Band-in-a-Box, you can generate a guitar chord solo for any melody. Band-in-a-
Box will intelligently arrange the melody into a guitar chord solo by inserting real guitar
voicings throughout the piece. You can select from among many Guitarists to create
your arrangement. And you can define your own Guitarists, choosing parameters such as
strum speed, types of voicings (Pop/Jazz), embellishments, and many more. You can
easily make and learn a professional quality guitar chord solo to your favorite song!
Generate a Guitar Chord Solo
Load in a song with a melody in it. We suggest the song GIT_TEST that should be in
your Songs folder. If it isn't there, choose the song “Old Folks at Home” or any other
song with a melody.
Open the Guitar window (Ctrl+Shift+G). Launch the Chord Solo function with the [Ch.
Solo] button, or select Melody | Generate Chord Solo.
Select Guitarist Window.
Once you press the Chord Solo button, you'll see the Select Guitarist window.
Here are the steps needed to generate your Chord Solo: