2012 (Macintosh)

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards 195
Automatic Settings for Guitar Display
Band-in-a-Box does many things automatically on the guitar window, to insure
that the notes are displayed intelligently on a guitar fretboard. These include:
- Automatically setting the 2 positions that will display the note names based
on the key.
- Auto-Scanning the track to be played, and adjusting the display octave on
the guitar fretboard to insure that the best octave is picked to minimize the
number of notes that will be outside of the current position displayed on the
fretboard.
- After Auto-scanning the track, the best position for displaying the music on
the guitar is determined. This is always one of the 2 positions (Aeolian or
Phrygian) as discussed above, though you may over-ride this by clicking on
any fret position.
- Color coding note displays. In addition to the note names being outlined in
the colors (as discussed above), when the note is played, it is highlighted in
green if it is a scale note, and yellow if it is an out-of-scale note.
Guitar Window Toolbar
At the bottom of the Guitar Window is the toolbar
These are the Guitar Settings. See below for details.
The “Position” button. This toggles between the 2 popular
positions displayed with note names.
When you open
the Guitar Window, the first thing you'll want to do is choose the track that you
want to display. Usually this will be a Melody track or a Soloist track. In the
illustration here, the Melody track is the current track, and it has a red rectangle
around it to indicate this.
To get to the Soloist track, click on the [S] button or use the keystrokes
Ctrl+F5. Similarly, you can display other tracks like Bass, Piano, etc.