User Guide

Chapter 6: Making Songs in Band-in-a-Box
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Automatic Songs - “The Melodist”
Feel like composing a brand new song? With Band-in-a-Box you can compose a new song, in the style of your
choice complete with intro, chords, melody, arrangement, and improvisations, all created by the program! All you
have to do is pick from one of the “Melodists” and press [OK] - the program then automatically generates the intro,
chords, melody, and arrangement in the chosen style. It even auto-generates a title! You can go from nothing to a
completed song in less than 1 second!
You can also auto-regenerate any part of a song and modify it to suit you. The Melodist will also generate a melody
over an existing chord progression. A “Melodist Juke Box” mode creates and performs new compositions in
succession.
Launching the Melodist
To launch the Melodist, press the [Melodist] button on the main screen, or use the Shift+F5 hot
keys.
Melodists can be filtered by “Genre” (e.g. EZ listening) to show
only Melodists in that genre.
You can also filter to show/not show Melodists from Melodist
sets that you don’t have.
Check “Show if N/A” to list all Melodists, even if they are not
present in the :\bb folder.
Note: Band-in-a-Box also has a SoundTrack feature that allows you to generate music in the style you choose
for any length of time you specify. Click on the SoundTrack toolbar button to launch this feature.