Technical information

Chapter 5: Guided Tour of Band-in-a-Box

Now, during playback, you will see guitar chords on the guitar fretboard in DADGAD tuning.

The examples above are for DADGAD tuning, but apply similarly to all 11 alternate tunings included.

Some of the tunings are “Nashville High Strung.” These tuning have the lowest 3 strings tuned up an octave, to

achieve a close sound. So a DADGAD High Strung tuning would have the lowest 3 strings “DAD” tuned up an

octave. Listen to some style examples that use this tuning.

Guitar Window Toolbar

At the bottom of the Guitar window is the toolbar.

There is a Guitar Tutor button.

The [Set…] button opens the Guitar Settings dialog, which allows you to set the guitar options.

These buttons will chord step advance, or note-step advance. The chord step advance is the

most commonly used function. It is also accessible by the hotkeys Ins and Del on the

numeric keypad and will advance or go back one chord at a time, leaving the chord displayed on the guitar.

This is the name of the current note that the mouse is over. If you click on the guitar at that position, the

note will sound.

If the Notation Window is open (in editable notation or note roll mode), that note will get inserted on the notation at

the current position on the timeline – you can disable that option to insert notes.