![]() ![]() This is seems hard at first, but the more you practice, the quicker transposing gets. I then transpose the song from the book into the key of either Bb or Eb, for whichever horn I am using. ![]() I am even going as far as working on a “Funk w/ horns” version of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child”, just to give you an idea of the possibilities you can come up with. You can be pretty specific with this and there are many combinations you can choose from. I then select what type of accompaniment I want in the back, and the genre. It has the chord changes written into it, and I simply enter those chord changes into the program. I have the book in the key of C (Piano, Guitar, Etc). What I have been doing is creating my own background tracks with the help of this book, and the BIAB program. For those who are not familiar, the Real Book is a large collection of standards, predominiantly jazz. The “Real Book”, and a computer program called Band In A Box (BIAB). Background tracks are an excellent solution to this. Like many, I do not have a band to practice with. But the new BIAB 2016 is fantastic for Mac so I can't complain too much.So I have changed up the way I practiced here lately. My only complaint about PGmusic is that they are so Windows-centric. There needs to be specific Mac instructions so more people can figure this out. So I can now use my iPhone or iPad with my piano and play through songs without having to set up a laptop. It sounds great (since it's an MP4) and since the MGU/SGU is open too, the chord changes appear on the screen like they do in the desktop BIAB. Now when I select OPEN on the IOS app, the name of the song appears, and I can open it. Thought the IOS app, I download BOTH files (that's the trick - your need both files!). Then I save/export BOTH files to Dropbox. I use Mac BIAB to create a BIAB file (MGU or SGU) and render it as an audio file. I have a MacBook Air, so I can't actually create or modify songs on the app, but that's fine. But then I decided to spend some time figuring it out and found that this app is really cool. Then I read all the terrible reviews and decided it wasn't worth the trouble. I downloaded this app once before and couldn't figure it out once the server screen came up. ![]()
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