Jeff Evans
One of its applications (and I am sure Kenny will agree with me on this) is for upcoming Jazz musicians to learn how to solo over endless choruses. Saves getting a band to play endless choruses live which is what we used to do a while back while learning to become a Jazz musician. Now we don't have to hassle the band anymore. Just set up BIAB and solo forever.
It is not very capable when a very unusual groove or feel is required. e.g. it is much harder to create something extremely original. If its more conventional you are after then it is very good.
Hi Jeff,
Yes I do agree with you my friend BIAB is a great practice tool
Here's an example of one of the first songs I have ever done w BIAB ..pardon the mix ...it was 7 years ago .
The midi parts that BIAB generated were imported into SONAR 6 and the Dimension Pro plays the sounds .
The way I used BIAB in that video is typical way a Jazz guitarist would use BIAB for a songs practice session .
In this example I had a tune I wanted to play .The tune is called Diving Duck Blues .
What I did here was I only put one chord in the BIAB chord chart . A simple G chord .
Then I went through a bunch of styles while I was playing along with them until I found a style that had the closest feel to what I was hearing and feeling.
Wrote out the full changes to Diving Duck Blues as a chord chart in BIAB ...
After exporting all the parts out of BIAB and importing them into SONAR
I deleted everything that came from BIAB except for the drums ...Recorded myself playing a 4 string Bass Part , a few rhythm guitar parts , did a little editing and then I played a lead gtr solo that I happened to film ...
That's very easy stuff to do in BIAB . It's a good way kick start some music out of a blank page ...
There are some much heaver duty workflows I could share ...I'm gonna leave it at that for now and save them for another post if people are still interested ...
all the best,
Kenny