User Guide

Chapter 14: User Programmable Functions
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Use Guitar Harmony Voicings
Harmony Maker will use real guitar chord voicings that display correctly on the guitar fretboard. Selecting this
checkbox means that guitar chord voicings will be used, instead of any other voicings specified in the Harmony
Maker. Check out Harmony #32 (J Pass) for an example of this
Use voicings in 4ths
Modern Jazz harmonies often voice chords in 4ths. For example, a C
chord with C melody might be voiced C, G, D, A, E. You can select 4ths
voicings easily in Band-in-a-Box to harmonize the Melody, Soloist, or
Thru parts using 3, 4, or 5 part voicings in 4ths. We’ve added presets for
these harmonies, so you can easily select them. Use these sophisticated
4ths harmonies on your existing melodies to create a new sound.
Tip: To quickly hear what some of the 4ths harmonies, sound like, look in the c:\bb\ Tutorial - BB 2005 demos folder for
pre-made songs with 4ths harmonies.
To use the harmonies with any song, choose harmonies in the range 213 to 219. Each of these is a harmony using
4ths. For example, Harmony 218 uses 4 trombones in 4ths.
To make your own harmony using 4ths for the harmonies, enter the Harmony Maker, press the [More] button, and
select the “Use Voicing in 4ths” checkbox.
Then the harmonies will be voiced in 4ths. You can make a 2, 3, 4, or 5 part harmony (+
melody doubling, + low root note).
The Soloist Maker
This module allows you to define your own soloists. For example, let's say you want to create a soloist in a style
similar to John Coltrane - the legendary jazz saxophonist. The Soloist Maker allows you to define the parameters
essential to the particular soloist's playing, such as instrument range (i.e. tenor saxophone), extra legato playing,
playing more on top of the beat than most Jazz musicians, and playing straighter 8th notes than usual swing 8th
notes.
In addition, you can set phrasing options, such as how long the phrase should be, and how much “space” to leave
between phrases. You can also set how “outside” the playing should be. (For Coltrane it would be set to
maximum!)
Access the Soloist Maker by pressing the Soloist Maker [Edit] button within the Select
Soloist dialog.
Tip: To share Soloists with your friends, use the [Export] button to save your Soloist to a disk, and use the [Import] button
to bring in a soloist from a disk. You can save your soloist to another Soloist file (*.s1) by pressing the [Save As] button.