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Appendix B: Styles Disks #15 – #19 Documentation98
STRAYST8.STY StRay Straight 8ths
Memo:
A 4 instrument med-tempo st.8 blues style featuring organ fills
thru-out. W/ el. Bass, el. Guitar, LiveMIDI Drums & Rock Organ. T=125
Examples:
Why I Sing the Blues, Watermelon Man
TAJMALL.STY TajMall St.8 Blues
Memo:
This med-tempo blues is based on a repeating Bass rhythm which
gives it a slight Latin flavor. Sparse Guitar comp. 4 insts. - el. Piano, el. Bass, el.
Guitar & LiveMIDI Drums. T=145
Examples:
Teeny Weeny Bit
Styles Disk #17: Unplugged Styles for Band-in-a-Box
Introduction and Overview
Styles Disk # 17 -
Unplugged
- is a set of
26 new all-acoustic
styles featuring -
modern and classic Bluegrass - Blues, Boogie, Folk, Ballad, Rock, Funk, Waltz,
Jug band, Samba, and much more. To get that
natural feel
, we asked San
Francisco session player,
Marty Cutler
, to assist us with this project which
features driving mandolins, acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles and acoustic bass,
inputted from a MIDI guitar controller. Marty has worked with us on other PG
Music programs, such as The BlueGrass Band and the Bluegrass Soloist Disk.
You asked for great sounding acoustic styles.
We got 'em !
You'll find styles
emulating groups like the great David 'Dawg' Grisman , Dave Mathews, Bon
Jovi, Newgrass Reunion, Ry Cooder. There are also classic driving straight-
ahead Bluegrass styles ala Bill Monroe, Folk-Rock ala The Band or Van
Morrison, a James Taylor Latin style, 60s Folk styles ala Limeliters, Kingstons
& PP&M, up-tempo Appalachian with fast fingerpickin' banjo licks, a new
acoustic Grisman-type Samba, slow Folk-blues with finger-picked guitar, and
lots more.
These
modern and classic styles
feature 4 or 5 instruments and
they all use
acoustic instruments only!
That's why we're calling them Unplugged (see -
we're getting you ready for Y2K). We picked the styles by using your
suggestions and requests from the PG Music forum Styles wishlist. Incidentally,
at
www.pgmusic.com
it's now possible to
hear and download the demos for
any of our 475 Band-in-a-Box styles
. ALL of the solos that are included in the
demos are auto-generated by Band-in-a-Box. Only the melodies are composed
by musicians.
Here's a tip for those of you who would like to have more style variation within
a tune: try combining similar (or different) styles by pressing the F5 key at any
bar. For example, subtle variations can be achieved by combining similar styles
such as DOGFUNK.STY
and DOGFUNKD.STY. Of course, combining
different sounding styles will produce more dramatic variations.