User Guide

Chapter 8: Automatic Music Features

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Select the Guitarist to Use. In the main list at the left of the Window, you see the

list of Guitarists that is already defined. For example, you can see that Guitarist #2

is called “Jazz Guitar, single position.” That will create chord solos that stick to a

single position on the guitar neck whenever possible.

Select Melody or Soloist track. You'd normally want the Guitar Chord solo to be

written to the Melody track, but you can also select the Soloist track as the

destination.

Confirm the Guitar Patch Selection. The Guitarist that you pick (see item #1) will

already have chosen the guitar patch to use, but you can override it with this setting.

Select the Range of the song to use. You can either generate a chord solo for the

whole song, or just a region of the song. In either case, remember that you need to

have an existing melody to work with. You can use the Melodist to generate a

melody if you don't have one.

Select the Main Guitar Position to use. Band-in-a-Box has a setting called “Auto

Set” that will set the main guitar position for the solo for you, based on the key

signature. For example, in the key of C, Band-in-a-Box will choose the 5

position

as the best position for the chord solo to be played. You can override this. For

example, if you wanted the solo to be in the 12

position you could de-select the

“Auto-Set” and then set the guitar position to 12

position.