How to Create An Effective Solo Using Band-In-A-Box

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Band in a Box - How I use BIAB to create effective SOLOS. This tutorial describes how I use BIAB to create solos demonstrating the exact technique I use in selecting the Real Tracks, auditioning different instruments, the rationale I use in selecting a solo instrument, and how I drag and edit in my DAW. It's a long video but hopefully the screen shots will show you my workflow in an easy to understand manner and will serve as a tool for you in creating your own compositions. If you like my techniques please subscribe to my channel. I cover a lot of other areas in producing music in BIAB. Note that my videos are not for learning how to play an instrument or technical music theory. My videos focus on music production and how to use BIAB to create and produce full songs whether you want to distribute or send to family and friends. The full song "Do You Still Think About Me" is also on my channel. Give it a listen to hear the full effect throughout :-) Thanks Henry Clarke
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@jamesmadisonthomas 3 года назад

This was very helpful. Thank you!

@danhutson2069 3 года назад

Thank u Henry great video very informative

@waynemiller6070 2 года назад

Very encouraging Henry. Thanks for the good info.

@jeromeloftonjr 3 года назад

Excellent Instructional Tips! ... Thank you for sharing!

@antoniocunha1884 Год назад

Thank you going over this. It's very helpful.

@herbiegreener1512 3 месяца назад

You have helped me soooooo much over the years Thank ypu Henry Keep it up

@henryclarke5407 2 месяца назад

Happy to help!

@debellispianoservice7114 6 месяцев назад

Thank You Henry, Just so much to learn and you make it fun and interesting

@henryclarke5407 6 месяцев назад

My pleasure!

@lewchaney2138 3 года назад

Thanks for the attention to details when you teach Henry...

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Thanks. I know some of the videos are pretty long but that's what it takes to add the details.

@TheRockdoc3 Год назад

A great tutorial Henry. Many thanks.

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@caryanderson7212 3 года назад

Thank you!! I appreciate your in depth instructions and flow on how to create music using BIAB and your DAW. Liked and subscribed.

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Welcome aboard! Hope there's more instruction you can take advantage of ! :-)

@amycord 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Bro

@happyron 3 года назад

Great to see more people making solos on BB, great info

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Thanks. BIAB makes great solos. Just need to know how to use them. Thanks again !!

@MaestroJones 2 года назад

Your. Video. All. Facts! 💪🏾😂❤️💯

@857raultoro Год назад

Thank you Henry

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

You're welcome.

@the.phantom025 8 месяцев назад

Thanks this video was awesome

@henryclarke5407 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@stevebarker3224 3 года назад

Henry, I'm new to BIAB and you touched on something very important, how to take BIAB and move into your DAW! Great lesson from a master!

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Thank for the kind words. Master ??? Well not exactly :-)

@rifosi Год назад

Great tutorial, thank you very much! And congratulations, you really nailed the solo perfectly. Really natural, expressive and musically interesting. Great song too, by the way.

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

Thanks a lot!

@regbower1944 Год назад

These Videos are great. You mentioned on one of your videos that you set all the volumes on 90 so to keep the tracks clean and strong when they are in your DAW. I would take that further and say to centre all the panning and remove all the reverb in BIAB, that way you have complete control in your DAW using dry tracks to add reverb, saturation, compression and the like. Keep up the good work.

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

I really don't like that technique. Trying to duplicate the effects on realtracks that I like is too much work. I can agree on panning center but removing all the effects Realtracks that I like for me is counterproductive. However if that works for you I can't disagree.

@Toppitmanilikeit 3 года назад

Nice one Henry. It certainly is a fine choice of solo and i appreciate this very worthwhile insight into working with BIAB... some great tips. Best regards from me.... to you!

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Thanks Mike. Sorry, I just saw this comment :-)

@joehermanartist 3 года назад

Love the song

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Thanks you Sir. I think the Horn Solo really brought it to life. :-)

@langleysmith8595 Год назад

Thanks very much for this Henry, you're a legend. I haven't used Daw yet!!!!! Been using BIAB on and off for a few years since 2013, and upgraded last year to 2022. BUT in this tutorial you quickly showed the use of "Bar Settings" and I was able to use this to play my harmonica solo in the bars that I wanted. Whoo Hoo. Very happy thanks

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

You're Welcome.

@MDOurMD 2 года назад

Good videos Henry. Thanks for taking the time to make them. All my video songs use BIAB. But I don't have a handle on it like you do.

@henryclarke5407 2 года назад

You'll get there in no time !! :-)

@karenstephens2047 2 года назад

Thank you Henry. I just got BIAB and I have Logic Pro… It seems like good sense to mess with the song in the DAW! I wouldn’t have thought of that. My husband and I love your style! Please keep going!💕

@henryclarke5407 2 года назад

Well thank you and thanks for watching ! 🙂

@scorpionleader1967 3 года назад

I don’t have BIAB. I just subbed for your workflow. This is the content I have been searching for. Who knows, I might get BIAB.

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Greg ... Who knows :-) Thanks for watching.

@Sandytuck Год назад

Hi Henry, Love what you do man I can see you like a nice sound and instruments in your tracks. Nothing like a good backing track and there is a lot of crap out there Cheers Thanks.

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

:-)

@1948steven 3 года назад

Great Video, Henry I was crushed when you said Guitar Players and Their Pedals in the same sentence. Being a American song book player / Jazz player I was crushed when you said to many chord changes. I love chord changes. But that being said it was a Great Video.

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Just having fun with some of the bands I used to be in and also in my role as a sound engineer for a few bands. Again all in fun. As far as chord changes I agree that they are essential in Jazz music and instrumentals but for most of the standard pop/soul music "WITH VOCALISTS" the fewer the chords the better and easier the song is to sing. Being able to sing to Jazz chords with a lot of changes is a rare talent and what made people like Al Jarreau and George Benson rise above the fray and even they had to simplify to get more widespread appeal. Anyway it's all in fun . Glad you liked the video. :-)

@phousatsayarath6648 Год назад

Slow down Man.. do you pass the instrument through the Effect pedal first ?

@williamshaneblyth 6 месяцев назад

brilliant and i suppose you could regen a solo and create another track and regen the same instrument in there so you end up with multiple sax solot racks that are regen different. in the daw you could save these stems cut bits up and make your own sax loop library or something to use else where in the future

@henryclarke5407 6 месяцев назад

Well you could do that but I personally I prefer to do it on a track by track basis,

@Musicmanbutte Год назад

I ma now watching your tutorials, very informative. I have BIAB 2020, I didn't know your could produce songs like that. I am listening to the song that you are doing in this video, Wow, just wow. How do you come up with your different chord progression's? Can you do a video on that?

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

There's no single way to do this. Too many variables. Sometimes I hear the chord in my head, sometimes I'll look at a songbook sheet music and try to emulate a riff, sometimes BIAB give me some chords I never considered. I really can't think of an effective way to show this. That's like asking how do I write a song. Sometimes I write from the hook, sometimes it's a musical riff, sometimes a melody pops into my head. Honestly for me it's more art than science. :-)

@virgotoro1230 3 года назад

Thank you for providing a very useful tutorial and can you give me a tutorial on how to install Band In The Box step by step?

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Hi. Unfortunately I do not do step by step tutorials on installation. There are just too many variables (is it PC or MAC, Thumbnail, download, or USB drive, etc..) I would recommend that depending on your type of purchase you visit the PG Music website where they can assist with your installation. I will say that in most cases installation is pretty straightforward and fairly easy to do.

@vcharrison63 3 года назад

I'd really like to see how you work on your music in your DAW...

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Is there anything specific you'd like to know?

@DopamineOverload Год назад

Hi Henry! always helpful. Do you have any helpful tips for slow / cocktail jazz Soloists that aren't CRAZY? Something more chill and laid-back? Trying to help some students with this kind of thing but I'm not a huge jazz-experienced guitarist or keyboardist. I'm looking for SLOW, chill jazz stuff.. I cant' seem to find any information on like 60bpm/brush chill stuff. Thanks so much if you're able to help. Hope you had a great holiday!!!

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

Can't help with that. You may be able to make it choosing a pattern and adding your own realtracks.

@DopamineOverload Год назад

@@henryclarke5407 thanks so much for your reply, Henry! It’s such a shame that the soloist I found are just too shreddy.

@localpm 2 года назад

Superb.Love the song 2.Can you tell me what effects you are using on the vocal track.Thanks.

@henryclarke5407 2 года назад

I don't exactly remember but my vocals are usually panned left, right, and center. The channels are then routed to a Vocal Bus. In the Vocal bus my standard vocal chain is 1) Light Autotune, 2) Noise Gate, 3) Compression, 4) iZotope Nectar or a CakeWalk Vocal Chain (both have multiple effectors processors like Reverb, Delay, Saturation, DeEsser, and EQ), 5) Compression again. Then the vocal bus is routed to the master. This video will probably give you a view of what it looks like (though it;s not the same song) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SpQeIAasrlY.html Probably more than you wanted to know but there it is 🙂

@localpm 2 года назад

@@henryclarke5407 Thanks so Much Henry.It was such a great sound.I do very similar to you whilst in vocal buss but...it must just be my singing!.Lol Thanks again so much.

@ralphtyrrell6509 3 года назад

Great stuff, thanks. How come you don’t use RealBand instead of Sonar? I have Ableton Live, but still use RealBand for editing, cleaning up.

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

I promise you I'm not trying to be a smart ass. Instead of typing a long answer check out this video of mine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G2wFyA9m5cQ.html

@brianrichards3128 3 года назад

God you can talk! (don't mean to be sacrilegious). Very nice, quite helpful as I'm trying to put together a 2nd solo after a nice piano solo. Client wants a violin, hasn't worked so far, now I can do a better search. Thanks a lot.

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

HA!! You would have loved me when I used to teach "Internetwork Design and Data Packet Analysis !!" I used to have to entertain them or they'd fall asleep :-)

@brianrichards3128 3 года назад

@@henryclarke5407 I can just imagine, stay safe over there, catch you next year

@MaestroJones 2 года назад

Keep singing man.

@CrossoverClassic 20 дней назад

Henry, can i create (from original songs) single instrument accompaniment.... acoustic Guitar in particular ... so, i could perhaps find all the chords to the original and then i could select a BIAB single guitar accompaniment? Like, take a James Taylor song, could i turn it into a single acoustic guitar accompaniment ideally that syncs with original song ..

@henryclarke5407 18 дней назад

Hi. This approach is very very difficult. BIAB has an app called Audio Chord Wizard (ACW). You load in your music file and it figures out the chords. I find it very finicky and troublesome so I rarely use it. One of the reasons is that it uses the timing (BPM) of the audio track which has to be spot on accurate in order for it to sync properly. In theory you could try it and it may figure out some of the chords. If so I would run it, write the chords down that it finds, and create a new BIAB song with those chords and play my song directly into BIAB on an audio track. That way you can change styles, mute certain instruments, etc.. and have everything sync. Sorry but that's the only way I know of approaching it based on what you wrote.

@robertlucido7338 3 года назад

Hi Henry, Merry Christmas! Can you please share where to find great midi files for songs? Where do you go to find them. Thanks. God bless

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

Hi and Merry Christmas. I find like these guys the best: www.midi.com.au/

@robertlucido7338 3 года назад

@@henryclarke5407 Thanks Henry Clarke! Have a blessed day. Your taste in music is so similar to mine. Love the old R&B. Thanks for all you do to help us our here.

@kenblair8268 Год назад

I wonder if a B3 organ sound would fit.

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

Any sound you think would be appropriate would fit. Just give it a try !!

@Musicmanbutte Год назад

Is Band in a Box the only software that you use to write your song's?

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

Absolutely not. There's just some stuff I can't do in BIAB. For example a lot of my top Spotify songs are "New Disco" based and BIAB wasn't up to speed in creating this type of music.

@chanaracaseyrichmond 2 года назад

you don't show top of screen where the pull down boxes are coming from. 3:34 "find different patterns, right" - can't see your pointer. "this track here, where it says pedal steel, right?" how did you get that instrument to appear? the youtube ads are torture. boy am I frustrated.

@henryclarke5407 2 года назад

You are looking at my ENTIRE screen. There is nothing hidden. Yes you can get an instrument to play specific notes in Band in a BOX. That is through MIDI. A concept you need to become familiar with if you are not already there.

@mrdali67 3 года назад

So if you are eg. not very good at laying out a sax solo on the keys, you can theoretically use BiaB to create say 10 different solos and render them out, import it in your daw an cut and paste what you like ?

@henryclarke5407 3 года назад

That is exactly the method. You do not need to play the solo yourself. BIAB software has intelligence embedded so the instrument will solo against the chord progression. If you render the solo you like you just import into your DAW.

@mrdali67 3 года назад

@@henryclarke5407 Thats pretty sweet. I remember how bad this program were back in the days when it came out. It was slow in reaction to chord changes and the midi acomp. was pretty terrible compared to arranger keyboards. Even when they started with the “real instrument tracks” it was still not even close to sounding as good as the best arrangers. They really seem to have moved a long way in a short time.

@chanaracaseyrichmond 2 года назад

13:35 - 3rd ad - just can't take it anymore. So basically, there is no way to get a specific instrument to play specific notes in band in a box. thanks.

@saxfish Год назад

Part2 :HI ember: Well I had some Luck...I "installed" 2019 in my new LT. It took 3 minutes to finalize, what takes 120GB and one hour to instal,l happened in 3 minutes¡ You know that cant be. Then it tells me 30 my trial days are over. Did the same on my old laptops. Same thing with the external HD. I feel there is something funny with my 2019 HD. The lucky part is that I succesfuly installed 2013 in the LT HD !¡! 70GB, took about 1 hour , as usual, as it has always been. Of course I have to re-learn where to freakin click. I don´t understand why every year you have to move things around. I want my 2019 back¡ I´m grateful I can do a GiG now wit 2013. I need my Ohh,Ahhhgirls singing.! I don´t use most of the features. I´m a performer. Would LoVe a simples less saturated BIAB, hey we´ve been together for20 years! Do you think I should buy 2022? I must say it scares me. I have been involved for hours & days trying making thing Normal again ( I hate every minute of it). I do need a "IK-authorization for my 2013 will expire in a couple of weeks. Does that still exists? Please guide me in doing thisso I don´t have a seizure ! Appreciating you attention...I am in your hands! Mike

@henryclarke5407 Год назад

I think this question is for Ember. Since he has your history you should contact him directly.