They are something you can do yourself, but it takes a lot of time so I sell them as a convenience. When I started they were on 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks. You might be interested in the fake 'disks'. It's a second income that keeps me from traveling during the slow gigging season. So I took out an ad in Electronics Musician Magazine, and now I sell add-on-styles and fake 'disks' for BiaB. I gave them to my friends who said they like them better than the ones PG Music offered (aren't friends wonderful?). Then I started writing styles because I thought there were important styles that PG Music didn't cover. BiaB was pretty simple back then, but gave enough for that. It was difficult to practice improvisation over those chord changes, try out ideas, see what works, and so on without accompaniment. I was in a trio and we learned "Sophisticated Lady" and "When Sunny Gets Blue" in the vocalist's key, which wasn't the standard. I find BiaB a great practice tool, as you can plug in almost any chord progression, transpose it to any key, change the tempo, and even loop parts. I can't understand why everyone doesn't have this software in this time and age. If I would have had this tool back in the late 50's when I started, I'd be Dexter Gordon today. I'm no rocket scientist! I'm 75 and I learned to work it 10 or 12 years ago. ![]() You can slow the solo down to learn a lick or a melody. If you don't like the solo, just click to recreate and it does a completely different solo. It has nice licks that sound great making a transition from the I7 to the IV chord or I to the IIm7 chord.etc. It has a solo feature that creates solos in guitar, sax, trumpet, trombone any instrument you want. I have a real book for BIAB and I'm sure it's over several hundred old standards. It never gets tired and wants to quit practicing and will never play a wrong chord unless you put the wrong chord in. The greatest practice assistant you can find. I enjoy the standards and at the turn around before the 2nd chorus you can have the Bass accent on the 2nd and 4th beat (called pedal bass) and it gives that kick before a solo improvised. ![]() Tempos from I think 30 bpm to over 300 bpm. It has styles (rhythms, etc.) for anything you want to play. When hooked to a good PA or Amplifier the sound is nothing to be embarrassed about. ![]() I've been doing solo gigs with BIAB at retirement centers, on the Street for Farmer's market, private parties etc. They use to answer me in less than a day back in maybe 2003 or so. Did you check with BIAB support? They are very slow today with email.
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