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Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards
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Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards
Vocal Wizard
The “Vocal Wizard” displays the best song keys for your vocal range!
This feature helps you choose the best song key for your vocal range. Open the Vocal Wizard, enter your vocal type
(baritone, tenor, etc.), or choose a custom range. Then the wizard analyzes the song and recommends the best keys
for that song. Options available to “include/exclude falsetto range,” “restrict choices to these keys […],” and
“transpose now.”
Before we enter the Vocal Wizard, we’re going to load in the song Old Folks at Home (present in the c:\bb\Tutorial
- BB 2005 folder). The song Old Folks at Home is in the key of F, we’ll use the Vocal Wizard to find the best key
for a baritone.
To enter the Vocal Wizard, choose the menu item Window | Vocal Wizard, or press the Vocal Wizard
button on the toolbar. This launches the Vocal Wizard.
Here’s the dialog that you see when you enter the Vocal Wizard.
You can see from the screenshot that the Vocal Wizard has picked the key of D (colored green) as the best key for
the song, using the baritone vocal range. Other recommended keys are colored yellow. Un-recommended keys are
colored grey, and include the current key of the song (F).
Let’s explore the areas of the Vocal Wizard screen.
There are 4 areas that require your input.