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Chapter 7: The 'Guitarist' 51
This tells you that that the solo has added a solo to the track, adding about 500
notes to the existing 1,000 notes. You'll notice that the guitar doesn't add a chord
to every note, it intelligently decides which notes to add chords to.
The playback will begin automatically, and you'll see the guitar voicings on the
Guitar neck. For example, at Bar 8 the chord is a C#dim, and BB has voiced a
Bb melody note with a 4 note Guitar voicing of the notes Bb,E,C#, and G.
This particular solo will be played in a single position, because those are the
parameters of this particular guitarist. Other Guitarists will play in a range of
positions (Guitarist #1) , or in open position (e.g. Guitarist # 8).
As you listen to the solo, you'll notice the following:
1. Some of the notes are left as melody, and some are assigned to chords.
2. A wide variety of guitar chords are used, including some advanced chords.
All of them are popular chords played by real guitarists – there are no
theoretical
chords.
3. The chords are strummed, to simulate a real guitar player.
4. The Track Type for the Melody has been set to Guitar – so the notation
shows TAB, and the MIDI file will be saved with the Guitar Channels (11-
16) preserved which preserves the fret positions.
Note: All of these items can be customized in the Guitarist Editor, described
below.
Let's Re-Do Part Of The Solo At A Higher Fret Position.
This particular song GIT_TEST.MGU has 6 choruses, and the last 3 choruses
have a much higher range of soloing. Let's redo that part of the solo, using a
higher fret position. We'll press the CHORD-SOLO button again, and de-select