[Dixielandjazz] BIAB Library was sleepwalk needed

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Thanks - I found it after I had gone to the site and looked around some 
there was a link that I missed the first time.  I haven't looked at any of 
the files yet but I got a bunch from the i-net five or six years ago.  All 
required tinkering or changes that some well intentioned person had put in. 
I think that a lot of people try to use BIAB as a finished performance tool. 
IMO it really isn't all that good for turning out listening things.  I think 
its strong point is as an accompaniment to horns and vocals.  I never turn 
on the melody except in rare cases.  I do use the soloist track to put in 
countermelodies and harmony parts and very rarely the melody its self.  I 
will put the melody in the soloist if I want some special effect.  I use it 
in the theme from Titanic with one of the echo voices to play along with me.

What happens is that people will put all kinds of junk into the melody line 
that just clutter up the basic line.  This especially happens when someone 
put in the melody with a keyboard and they just couldn't restrain themselves 
from putting in all kinds of junk.  It's a lot of trouble to remove all that 
stuff.  If you have someone sight reading which one of those three or four 
notes piled on each other is the correct one?  That's the way some things 
show up.  They may sound OK but reading them is a drag.

I will look through them for tunes that might be good and then modify them 
for my use.  I spend it seems like a lot of time working with BIAB.  I am 
just forever tweaking tunes and changing keys or arrangements.  I think of 
it as like tending a garden that needs weeding all the time.

Thanks for the lead on a BIAB site.  I'm sure there is enough there to keep 
me up a few nights.  I was looking through the tunes for East Side West Side 
for St. Patrick's day and I would have thought this oldie would have been 
there.
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Giorgi" <ricgiorgi at sympatico.ca>
To: "'Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis'" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] sleepwalk needed


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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] sleepwalk needed
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> I tried to download some of these and I was able to download them
> just fine
> but what opens the files?
> Larry
> StL
>
> [I reply]
>
> WINRAR
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> http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250_4-10007677.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ric Giorgi
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>