User Guide

Chapter 12: Tutors and Wizards
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As you can see, by comparing the two sets of chords, the Chord Wizard got almost all of the chords correct in this
example. The Chord Wizard purposely avoids chords like “C13.” It will put a simpler “C7” instead, since this is
more like a typical lead sheet.
If you've read in the entire MIDI file, you have 103 bars of chords on the Chord sheet. This actually contains 3
choruses of the song. You might want to reduce that to a single chorus by setting the chorus end of the song to bar
36 and then erasing the excess bars (after bar 36) by choosing Edit | Erase.
Examining the song that has been interpreted by the Chord Wizard.
You'll notice that the title (Violet Song), key (F), and tempo (120) have been set to the values found in the file. Part
markers are not set; the Chord Wizard doesn't try to guess where part markers might be occurring. You need to put
the part markers in yourself. You also need to choose the style to use (a Jazz Swing style in this case). If you
examine the Melody track (by opening the Notation window and right clicking on some notes or pressing the Event
List (#) button), you'll notice that the Melody track contains notes from Channel 4, which is what we specified in the
Chord Wizard dialog.
Importing Part of a MIDI file
(or re-doing a section of the Chord Sheet)
Normally we'd want to import an entire MIDI file worth of chords. But if you only want to import some bars, you
can deselect the “Import Complete song” checkbox, and then specify where to start in the MIDI file (i.e. the number
of lead-in bars in MIDI file) and what bar to start at in Band-in-a-Box (Insert to BB starting at bar #) and the number
of bars to import (How Many Bars to import?).
For example, using the song “Violet Song.MID,” we could redo a section of the song using different settings. (For
example, a chord resolution of 1 beat instead of 2 beats.) If we were unhappy with the results at bar 7 and 8, we
could redo this by making the settings as follows:
Other Settings for the Chord Wizard
Band-in-a-Box and PowerTracks Pro Audio songs contain special events that write the exact chord names into the
MIDI file. So if the Chord Wizard sees these events, it will use them instead of interpreting the chords, since they
are likely to be completely accurate. If you'd prefer to ignore these chord events, set the “OK to use PG Music
Chord names from MIDI File” to false.