Fun in the lab with BIAB

[Ray Minich]

First I found a guitar book at the local music shop with "Just A Closer Walk with Thee" printed in the key of B flat. Used it for a roadmap to get started.

Then I took Buddy Emmons' chord vocabulary CD and extracted track 31 as a .wav file. That's the track with "Just A Closer Walk with Thee" annotaded by Buddy with the chord callouts.

Using a dual head PC (two monitors), I ran Band in A Box in the left monitor, and played back the annotated track in the right monitor using DartPro32. It was a little tricky but I entered the chord progression into BIAB just as Buddy arranged them.

The result is a most interesting study of what chord can go where. Next step will be to build the PSG fretboard locations for the minors & diminished.

Finally, for those of ya who may own Tom Bradshaw's little book on chord theory, I entered into BIAB each of the 40 "typical tune" chord progressions that appears on the inside back page. One progression per 4 measures. Makes for a very interesting piece of music to listen to what chords work together and how. (Using the "Eagles" style makes it sound nice too).
Kinda nice to know these computers are good for something other than spam targets.