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Finally just play the CD.Īs a word or warning, practicing with machines can ruin your time feel. then use BIB to make some slightly less bad music and then if you still need better hunt down some MIDI files of the standards. Make some really bad music by cutting and pasting loops, try that. What you should do is go slow Time time to learn what Garage Band can do. Google "one man band" and it will be about the 12th hit.
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There is another class of software that will create auto accompany, either with loops or automatic "one finger" chords. Or let BIB make the loop rather then pull it from a library. You can drag these onto the score and make a borring, never ending 16 bar drum and bass loop with any time signature you like. GB come with a whole library or recorded loops in both midi and audio format. That is much harder with audio But with audio you can play along with the actually musicians who made the song a "standard"Īnother option is to use Garaband to make a loop. MIDI does have the advantage that you can adjust the tempo without changing the pitch. There is a third option, Play along with an audio file. You can use both, BIB can make a MIDI file you play in GB. You tell it basically what you want and it writes and plays the music. The best way to think of this is to think of GarageBand as a tape recorder, you can very the playback speed and edit the recording but once yo hit "go" it is not interactive.īand in Box is much the same except it can write the tape for you withoput having to create the recording or. I have been doing a fair bit of search and have so far identified 2 main options: Does that offer enough variety in your opinion? Now I do not know how many are jazz: if the tracks are evenly distributed by band, it should be 3 bands times 4 tracks = 12 variations of jazz styles. So MegaPAk has got all the MIDIs plus 40 Real Tracks.
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With regards to BIAB, which sounds to me more and more the way to go given your comments, from PG Music's website: Also, I am not sure where one could find well arranged MIDIs of jazz standards, the key point being the arrangement and not the sound quality as you could override that with your own sounds. Obviously this would be a lot less flexible (but also a lot cheaper than $469!). Importing those and using good quality virtual instruments would substitute BIAB.
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With regards to GarageBand, it could be used if you could find "high quality" MIDIs of, say, the full Real Book.
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Also the mass of songs available for BIAB which display melody, lyrics, and chords (in other words, a full fake book type presentation) do not appear to be available for GB.
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You can't just enter chords and pick a style and start playing along with it. Regarding Garageband, I've only had a mac for a couple of weeks, but I don't see where it has any of the capablities of BIAB (please correct me if I'm wrong).
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Usually I upgrade every year or two for less than a hundred when PG has a special on. It has lots of other features (eg:chord recognition from mp3 or midi files).įor practicing I don't think it is necessary to have the $469 version. There are tons of jazz and other genre scores available on the net (all the Real Book songs for example) so I very rarely have to enter notes and chords for a song.
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Easy to change keys (I print out arrangements for piano(concert pitch) and sax (Eb or Bb) for my 2 man jazz band). It's great for practicing and also for printing out scores. I have been using BIAB for many years now.