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The strings will play in the “b” substyle only, because that's how they were

made in the Miami Pop style.

You could now import the Guitar from the ZZCONTRY.STY for example,

using the steps above. It is quite easy to quickly add instruments to styles by

importing instruments from other styles.

Intelligent Guitar Styles

Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar from Band-in-a-Box

styles, with strumming, picking, and accurate fret fingering? You'll get it with

Version 11! “Guitar Styles” are styles that show strummed and picked guitar

parts accurately on the guitar fretboard, and they sound great. These styles also

play accurate guitar voicings, in your choice of Pop, Jazz, Country, or Folk

Guitar chording. There's even a “walking guitar comping” style that plays guitar

that emulates the famous “Basie Big Band” Jazz style. The “Guitar Styles” play

like any regular style, and when you view them on the virtual guitar fretboard

you can see exactly which strings and frets are used so it is a great learning tool

as well.

Information about Guitar Styles for Playback.

Guitar Styles are identified by the exclamation point (!) in the style name. This

is not a requirement, but is usually present in the style name. Guitar styles

require Version 11 of Band-in-a-Box. With an earlier version the guitar track

will play wrong notes. For the typical user who is just using the styles for

playback and isn't making their own styles there's not much that you need to

know about the styles, since they play normally like other Band-in-a-Box styles.

You can see which tracks have intelligent guitar parts by looking at the title

window of the Guitar fretboard, when the track is highlighted. If it is a guitar

style track, it will say [Guitar voicings] after the name of the track. The usual

track that has the intelligent guitar styles is of course the Guitar part. Some of

the styles have more than one guitar, so the Piano and/or Strings part might also

have an intelligent guitar part. In these cases, you can also view the guitar on

those tracks.

The styles can be set to use different types of voicings for guitar. For example,

there are Jazz, Pop and Folk (open position) voicings. Also, some of the styles

allow the guitar to play advanced chords and inversions. Some of the styles play

chord patterns, so the chord in the song might be F7, but the guitar plays a

“walking-chord” pattern of F7, Cm7/G, Abdim, F7/A on each beat. There can

be “finger-picking” styles that have a lowest note alternate between root and 5

Guitar parts use channels 11 to 16 for the notes, corresponding to strings 1 to 6

of the guitar. When the notes are output to MIDI, they are re-channeled to the

Guitar channel, so that it only uses 1 channel. When you make a MIDI file, the

notes will all be written on the single guitar channel. Some other sequencers

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