User Guide

Chapter 12: Wizards, Tutors, and Utilities
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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.