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A period indicates no pattern and a number from 1 - 9 indicates that a pattern has been

recorded with the actual value corresponding to the desired weight the pattern is to be

given relative to other similar patterns. Patterns that you don't want to hear very often in

the style are given low weights. Usually you will use weights in the range of 0 - 8 where

0 = no pattern recorded

1 - 8= pattern recorded

9 = special weight that is really given a much higher weight internally by the program. A

pattern with a weight of 9 will always be played (if not masked out by other options).

“a” and “b” refer to the 2 substyles available in the Band-in-a-Box program.

Explanation of the pattern lengths 8, 4, 2, and 1 beat.

You may ask, “Why would I need to have different pattern lengths in a style?”

Whenever Band-in-a-Box encounters a chord change in a song it will begin to

playback a new pattern, starting at the beginning of the pattern. It firsts scans

the chord to see how long that chord is going to last without a chord change.

For example, let's look at these chords:

| 1a Dm7 | 2 G7 C6 | 3 FMAJ7 | 4 (These chords are in substyle “a.”)

When Band-in-a-Box is playing back your style, it starts by looking at the Dm7

chord, and counts that it lasts four beats before the next chord change to a G7

chord. It then looks to the style that you have created and sees if you have any

patterns created in the A 4 beat line – if so, you will get an appropriate pattern

that you have recorded for chords lasting four beats.

Note: If you don't want to classify patterns according to this method (don't worry), you can

just record all of your patterns on the A 8 beat line. When Band-in-a-Box sees that you

haven't any 4 beat patterns it will choose an eight beat pattern and then only use the first

four beats of it.

Then when Band-in-a-Box encounters the G7 chord, it sees that it lasts two

notes before the next chord change. So Band-in-a-Box will look for any A 2

beat patterns. There is tremendous advantage to being able to record different

length patterns. Eight beat patterns might be blank for the first four beats for

example; a situation that could not apply for four beat patterns or the entire

pattern would be blank!

Here is another example of chords with the durations of the chords displayed for

you underneath:

4 bar e.g. | F | Bb C7 | F6 | |

chord duration 4 2 2 8

Patterns may be entered for chord durations of 1, 2, 4, and 8 notes. The Band-

in-a-Box program sorts out everything else about determining the length of the

chord durations in the song and combining lengths for unusual lengths (3 = 2+ 1

etc.).

So now we know what the rows are for: they are for patterns of different lengths

and different substyles (A and B). The columns across the screen are used to

contain multiple variations of similar sounding patterns. The program will

randomly pick between the similar patterns on playback. The number that is

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