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Chapter 2: Summary of New Features 7
Chapter 2: Summary of New Features
The New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 10 are ...
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Guitar Styles
– Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar
from Band-in-a-Box styles, with strumming, picking, and accurate fret fingering?
You'll get them with Version 10 :
'Guitar Styles'
are styles that show strummed
and picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard (and they sound great.)
These styles also play accurate guitar
voicings
in your choice of pop, jazz, country
or folk guitar chording. There's even a "walking guitar comping" style that plays
guitar which emulates the famous "Basie Big Band" jazz style. The "Guitar Styles"
play like any regular style, and when you view them on the virtual guitar fretboard
you can see exactly which strings and frets are used – so it is a great learning tool
as well. You can also make your very own Guitar Styles using the StyleMaker
feature, with options such as guitar style (Jazz/Pop etc.), strumming speed, picking
patterns and more!
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Guitar Tutor
- Use the new "Guitar Tutor" to analyze any song. This feature
will show the chords that are playing on the virtual guitar fretboard, in your choice
of a jazz, pop, or folk perspective. The Guitar Tutor is a fun way to learn about
new guitar chords while playing along with your favorite Band-in-a-Box tune.
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Chord Substitution Wizards -
Reharmonizing a song with the new "Chord
Substitution Wizard" is a fun and educational way to perform or practice a familiar
song in a brand new way. This feature is very easy to use; simply highlight an area
of chords and select 'Chord Substitution', and the possible chord substitutions are
instantly displayed for you. For example, if you had chords such as "Dm7 G7
Cmaj7", a list of substitutions including the tritone substitution "Dm7 Db7b5
Cmaj7" would be offered to you for use in your song. There are also helpful
comments associated with each substitution, showing you why a given substitution
might work in each case (e.g., is the melody compatible with the substitution, etc.).
Or you can enable the "Auto-Substitution" feature, and the substitutions will be
selected according to the general pre-set preferences.
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Live Harmony Enhancements -
Playing along to a song on a MIDI keyboard
using harmonies has just got better. Version 10 offers
passing harmonies
(chromatic, diatonic and dominant 7), so that the harmonized voices will smoothly
lead to the next note. You can even
control exactly which notes to harmonize:
if
you hold down a predetermined MIDI note with your left hand a harmony will
play, otherwise it will just be a single note. There's also a
new mode for "Live
Harmonies" even if there is no song playing
. In this mode you play chords with
your left hand and single notes with your right hand. Then, the right hand notes are
harmonized according to the chord that is held down with your left hand. This
feature allows you to play along not only with the program, but with anyone in a