Step by step how to install the backing tracks that you downloaded after purchase
This guide is for those who bought the complete collection. If you only bought the SGU tracks, read only the first part.
Some musicians asked me for explanations on how to install. Here a simple guide.
Your download file is a “RAR” file (what is a RAR? How to open a RAR?). After unzipping it, inside you will find the content (4 more folders):
SGU folder
Copy the SGU folder into the same folder (the first on the left) where you save the Band in a Box SGU files. If you don’t know where, click on BiaB main screen “Save As” and you can see the folder location (in this case “bb””):
You can choose the sgu song by clicking Open / Open File:
MP3 Folders
The other folders contain MP3 songs and lyrics. Each MP3 song is associated with a lyrics file, with .lrc extension, i.e.:
Remember that to show the lyrics you need to install an lrc program (I use MiniLyrics).
That’s all. Put the files in your favorite player, start the Mp3 and see the lyrics synchronized!
Note: this method shown above is quick and easy. If you have problems due to old versions of Band in a Box or for other reasons, the following tutorial, alternative method (“The Trick”) always works:
The Trick: How The Experts Create a Song In A Few Minutes Without Learning The Chords!
(You need only the midi song file)
Band-in-a-Box SGU Files Download. Your pre-made backing track.
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These videos concern backing tracks that are not widely available on YouTube, or are lacking in quality. I am hoping to be useful by proposing these original songs, while also adding lyrics.
They can also be used as a karaoke video.
HQ MP3. No Vocals, No soloist, No Midi, No Fade.
How To import and play a midi file on Band-In-A-Box® with separate realtracks
The Band-In-A-Box Trick: How The Experts Create a Song In A Few Minutes Without Learning The Chords!
We want to create a backing track in a few minutes, with real instruments. Watch the video, but you can also follow the tutorial step by step on this page.
Import the MIDI file. The problem is that Band-in-a-Box® will import all the track of the MIDI file into a single track (the Melody track). We need a different procedure.
1. Search for the midi file, e.g. I can’t tell you why ” by The Eagles”, and download.
2. Open Band in a Box without choruses
Menu, Choruses =1
3. Open the midi file (goes to Melody track)
4. Here is your midi file, but all the tracks are on the melody track, and they cannot be separated.
5. Check the number of bars occupied by the song. You will have to add this number of bars later
6. Select all the bars by dragging the mouse over the whole song and copy the content
7. Open a new song from scratch
8. Insert a number of bars not less than that of the midi
7.
9. Paste the song
10. Now your midi has all the tracks editable
11. Replace them with your favorite real tracks
12. Import your instruments to all the tracks you intend to use
13. That’s all! Your song is ready. You can save it like “sgu” file or export (.wav or .mp3)
14. Export the song (Rendering)
15. Done. This is your old midi with real tracks!
If you want the collection of ready-made original backing tracks: Full BiaB SGU Download
NEW! Are you looking for an accompanying guitarist?
Perform alone with the backing of a second acoustic guitar recorded by a rhythm guitar player! (+ special function, see after)
These guitar backing tracks are dedicated to those who perform as soloists but at time require to be accompanied by a second acoustic guitarist, and have already discarded the use of the looper, midi or classic backing tracks, which due to the numerous instruments make the performance come across as unnatural.
Guitar Duo: You and the virtual player
After experimenting with the use of the looper (*) in my performances as alone guitarist, I had to think of a different solution, as the looper has the defect of easily causing live errors.
Even if previously storing the loops in special memories, the system remains impractical and with an unsatisfactory overall sound. Furthermore, it is precisely “loops” and not an entire composition, limiting the repertoire to a few dozen songs.
“UNPLUGGED” BACKING TRACKS WITH REAL GUITAR ACCOMPANIMENT
I have prepared for you a list of songs with only the accompaniment of the guitar, not midi, but with the real musicians of “Band in a Box”.
Here a demo video:
This collection of backing tracks was born from different demands:
Having the sound of a guitar accompaniment without the backing tracks instruments that make your performance feel artificial.
No midi sounds, but a real guitar that accompanies you, played by a real musician.
Read the lyrics already synchronized with the music.
All within the reach of a simple smartphone.
For those who use the harmonizer: to be able to harmonize the voice without playing the chords with your guitar, but automatically from the chords played by the backing track: no more mistakes!
If you already have Band in a Box you know what I’m talking about, backing tracks created with the rhythm guitar, excluding all other realtracks, in order to create an authentic accompaniment. The result is equivalent to a duo of true guitarists.
If you are unaware, or don’t have Band in a Box, you can use the mp3 tracks ready for your accompaniments, complete with lyrics, with your smartphone or mp3 player.
If you are already a user of the BiaB software, you can change the tracks as you wish without losing quality, such as pitch shifting, alternate guitar sounds, etc.
It’s time to impress your audience, add backing tracks “only rhythm guitar” to your performances and lyrics!
(*) Looper: a “looper” pedal records a musical passage and then repeatedly plays it back on a loop. Once it is played back, most loop pedals allow for overdubbing new passages over the first one.
VOCAL HARMONIZER
With these tracks there is a different way of utilizing a vocal harmonizer.
Just connect your mp3 player to the harmonizer, no longer your guitar to the harmonizer. The harmonizer recognizes the chords of the guitar played by the backing track, freeing you from the problem of a perfect performance!
With the download is included the APK player, an ideal complement for musicians to live performances with my ready-made Biab Backing tracks. The program supports LRC lyrics.
“SmartScreen” filter, introduced by Microsoft, is present in Internet Explorer 8(IE8), IE9 and IE10versions. It was developed to provide better security to IE users.
Microsoft has implemented the same mechanism in its latest OS, Windows 8 and later.
If you try to run a downloaded program or compressed file from Internet, it checks the file and if it finds an unrecognized app, it blocks the program and shows a message on screen.
If you click on OK button, the program execution is terminated.
SmartScreen filter shows the same warning message for almost all 3rd party programs which are downloaded from Internet.
If the file is safe, as our, you can click on “More info“ link, given in the message and it’ll provide 2 buttons: “Run anyway“ and “Don’t run“.
You can click on “Run anyway” button to launch the program.
…More on this PDF “How to Download a File” Full Tutorial
Content:
How to download (problems with the compressed files download)
Big Size Files (as many mp3s in the same folder )
Windows blocks my download: The SmartScreen Filter
A different pitch is often essential for a singer that needs lower tones, such as a woman’s voice.
Maybe you have noticed that many of these backing tracks are played in different keys. Some of you have expressed disappointment in such cases. But what is the reason for this choice?
It’s easy to find backing tracks of the most famous songs on the net, but it is almost impossible to find the same in a different key, and you will notice that changing the pitch affects the sound quality.
Key Transposer: a practical example?
Take the “I Will” by the Beatles. It’s in the F key. This tone is not suitable for everyone.
For many it is more comfortable to sing it in the C key.
The group Monnalisa Twins executes the song transposed in a different tone, C:
Monnalisa Twins “I will” in the key of C
This is the original song by The Beatles (I Will, White Album 1968) in the original key, F:
The tracks ready made with Band-In-A-Box on TheGuitarBand.com are for those who require these needs, and being available for free download, represent for many a precious catalog of songs.
Key Transposer to pleasure with Band-In-A-Box.
Key Transposer: SGU to Mp3
BAND IN A BOX allows the key change in one click (as in the midi).
An mp3 song is notoriously unable to be transposed, though Band in a box has several options.:
Realize the track on whichever key, and export it to mp3 in the desired tone. Obtain a song file (SGU) ready to open with BIAB, and change the key in one click.
You can also buy the Complete Collection with over 600 SGU band-in-a-box backing tracks ready and tested, without wasting time creating your own backing tracks.
The song in F is not easy to sing. Change it to C with the SGU file of Band-in-a-Box.
For any info you can always contact me personally to ggriscenko@gmail.com.
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