honeydawg
1 post
Mar 18, 2008
11:12 AM
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Anybody using Band in a Box? I'm considering it...
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Patrick Barker
23 posts
Mar 18, 2008
5:57 PM
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Ya I've heard of it from my trumpet teacher who recommends it to me but have never actually bought it. Apparently you can input basically any chord changes and it'll play them for you to practice solos with. If you are pretty good and have somewhat unique chord changes that you need to practice with, this tool is probably great. If you just need to practice soloing with backgrounds with general blues, jam tracks would work for a cheaper price.
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Harmonica Slim
24 posts
Mar 19, 2008
2:17 AM
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BiB is a great tool if you want to compose or try different ideas over a given chordprogression. As Patrick mention in his post it's not a practise tool, if you are looking for something to jam with it's better to buy jamtracks etc. If you want to make simple backgrounds the Garageband is a better choise, you need a Mac though. So it all comes down to the question wath are you gonna use it for? Composing = BiB, play along = jamtracks, backgrounds = GB. Bare in mind that this is MHO! HS
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honeydawg
3 posts
Mar 19, 2008
12:37 PM
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Thanks for the responses... I'm interested in not just blues, but also music broadly defined as "americana" -- also R&B, swing, cajun, Celtic, jazz standards, reggae, old country tunes-- I guess I just want to see where I can fit the harp into music I like.
I understand the latest version apparently lets you feed an mp3 into the software, and it'll spit out the chords. I've heard there's a bit of a learning curve with BiB, so I'm a bit wary of all the work that's NOT making music connected with setting up and learning new software.
I think I'm going to bite the bullet at some point soon.
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