User Guide

Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial 8
Chapter 2: QuickStart Tutorial
Creating music with Band-in-a-Box is as easy as 1-2-3! In this tutorial, you’ll
see just how easy it is to get Band-in-a-Box making music for you.
Step 1 – Typing in the Chords
There are numerous ways of entering chords into Band-in-a-Box. We’ll discuss
five fast ways of entering chords:
1. Using the Computer Keyboard
2. Playing directly on a MIDI Controller Keyboard
3. Using the Chord Builder
4. Importing Chords from a MIDI file
5. Loading an Existing Band-in-a-Box Format Song
On the main screen of the program, you’ll see an area called the chordsheet.
Band-in-a-Box main screen showing chordsheet.
Each of the numbered cells on the chordsheet represents a bar. In this example,
you can see that there is an F6 chord in the first bar of this song. Similarly, one
row down, you can see an F6 chord in bar 5, and later in the song, a G7 in bar 7.