Dm7 is IIm7), then you should enable the “Only match if relative to this key” checkbox and set the key to C. If you want to find the progression that is relative to the key of C (i.e. When the Custom Chord Progression Match dialog opens, type in a chord progression using a vertical line for a bar line. The Songs with Custom Chord Progression item in the “Chords/Melody” filter menu helps you find songs that contain a chord progression that you specify. The “Other” button is to filter the list by a certain style, songs with melody/soloist/lyrics, certain keys, tempo range, or file dates from certain years. The “Chords/Melody” button allows you to filter the list by a chord progression and/or a melody fragment. You can use “Genre/Feel” button to filter the list by genre, feel (even/swing, 8th/16th), or time signature. The “Subfolders” button allows you to filter the list by a certain subfolder of the current folder. Type in any text, and the filtered list will show songs that contains the text in any field. The song list can be filtered in many ways. You can copy and paste it into a text file. In the area below the song list, you can see the chord progression of the currently highlighted song. For example, if 1-32*3 is shown, the chorus starts at the bar 1 and ends at the bar 32, and there are 3 choruses in the song.ĭate - The file was last modified in this year/month. Genre - This tells you the genre of the song.įeel - The feel (even/swing, 8th/16th) will show in this column.įorm - This shows you the song form. TimeSig - The number shown is the numerator of the time signature, so “4” means the song is in 4/4 time and “3” means it is in 3/4 time. Lyrics - If the song has note-based lyrics, a letter “L” will show in this column. If the column is blank, the Soloist track is empty. Soloist - A letter “S” tells you that the Soloist track is present. A blank column means that the Melody track is empty. Melody - A letter “M” indicates that the song has the Melody track. SubFolder - If the folder has subfolders, they will show here.įile - This is the file name of the song. This customization will be remembered between sessions. You can change the width of any column in the song list by dragging the boundary. There is also an option to always open the home folder. You will see some menu options to choose folders. If you want to see the song list in other folders, press the button. If the “Open in Home” option is enabled, the SongPicker will always open in the home folder instead of the current folder when you press the default button to open the SongPicker.

If the song list build is taking more than 3 seconds, you will see the progress at the top of the window. You need to press the button to build the song list for this folder. This is an empty folder but is used for you to put any songs. The SongPicker will show songs in Band-in-a-Box/ MySongs, which is your “home” folder. You can also search songs that have similar chord progressions or melody fragments.

It has many filter features for finding songs. The SongPicker shows information for up to 60,000 songs. Simply drag the file and drop it anywhere on the Band-in-a-Box screen, including various windows. File types include Band-in-a-Box songs (.SGU/.MGU), MIDI (.MID), audio (.WAV/.AIFF/.M4A/.MP3), MusicXML (.mxl/.xml/.musicxml), and ABC Notation (.abc).

You can drop many file types onto the Band-in-a-Box screen and they will be loaded into the program, either as a new file or added to an existing song. If “Recently Loaded Songs” is checked, clicking the button will go directly to the Recently Played Songs list, and so on. For example, if there is a check mark beside “SongPicker,” clicking on the top half of the button will launch the Song Picker dialog. The default method for the top half of the button is assigned from this menu. Clicking on the bottom half of the button opens a menu of the options for opening songs. Clicking on the top half opens a song selection dialog using the default method assigned to the button. The button opens a menu of commands for opening files by various methods. You can load a song from the or button on the toolbar. Songs with a MIDI melody track have the file extension. SGU file extension are backup arrangements with no melodies.

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