Band in a Box Offer

Mike Ihde · Post by **Mike Ihde** » 3 Apr 2000 8:43 pm

I have assembled all my fake books and Real Books containing almost 2,000 tunes from Jazz to Pop to Country. They fit onto 2 floppys or one Zip disc. If you want the ultimate music minus one program , this is it . It's the best way to improve your chops by having a full band to practice with ANYTIME you want it, in ANY tempo and ANY key and they'll play each tune for as long as you want them to. Just mail the discs to me (PC or Mac format) plus $20 and I'll send them to you. Mike Ihde, box 446, Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston St. Boston MA 02215

Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 4 Apr 2000 4:42 am

What do you mean by "minus one program?"

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » 4 Apr 2000 6:44 am

Are these all books that you published?[This message was edited by Mike D on 04 April 2000 at 07:46 AM.]

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 4 Apr 2000 7:41 am

"Music Minus One" was a series of LP records with the solo instrument on one channel and the accompaniment on the other. You could listen to the solo, then turn it off and play along with the accompaniment. BIAB does the same sort of thing, but through the wonders of MIDI, you have even better control over how the music goes.

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Mike Ihde · Post by **Mike Ihde** » 4 Apr 2000 12:07 pm

Mike D,
The "Real Book" is the bible for Jazz musicians. It started here in Boston in the70's. There used to be a guy standing on the street corner near Berklee selling these like hot watches. Everybody had to have one. They had all the cool tunes in it and for a change, all the right chord changes. This went on for years till the "guy" finally got them printed up legite. But for copyright problems he had to leave out most of the cool tunes from the original "illegal" version. When BIAB came on the scene, someone took all the tunes from the original "illegal" book and programed them into BIAB. Since then,others have created complete versions of the subsequent editions of the Real Book as well. My compilation is all of the tunes from all of those books plus more.[This message was edited by Mike Ihde on 04 April 2000 at 01:11 PM.]

Chris DeBarge · Post by **Chris DeBarge** » 4 Apr 2000 12:21 pm

But you need the Band in a Box software. Anybody know the street price of this these days?

It's a tempting offer Mike, maybe I could finally figure out "Caravan".

Mike Tatro · Post by **Mike Tatro** » 5 Apr 2000 6:39 am

Mike, have you considered zipping them up and allowing downloads from a personal web site?

I'm probably going to take you up on your offer. $20 is very fair. It's just that it would be easy enough to eliminate the snail mail delay.

BTW, BIAB is an essential session training tool (IMHO). That and CoolEdit2000 for those occasions when you need to cop parts directly off a CD or tape. It's fantastic.

How did pros ever get along without this stuff? <g>

Everett Cox · Post by **Everett Cox** » 5 Apr 2000 11:04 pm

Chris--BIAB v9.2 (current) is available at the following website for $65:
http://proaudiomusic.com [This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 06 April 2000 at 09:20 AM.]

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 6 Apr 2000 6:37 am

For full information about BIAB, go to their website: http://www.pgmusic.com

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