Band-in-a-Box’s StyleMaker creates styles in 3\/4 or 4\/4 only. However, consider that 6\/8, 9\/8, & 12\/8 styles are justvariations of 3\/4 or 4\/4 – you can make and use styles in these time signatures to get the same effect.<\/p>\n
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12\/8: Band-in-a-Box considers 12\/8 to be a variation of a 4\/4 style (i.e. a 4\/4 style with a triplet feel). To make a 12\/8 style, just make a 4\/4 style in a triplet feel. In other words, one bar of 12\/8 is equivalent to one bar of 4\/4 in a triplet feel. For an example, choose the “Country 12\/8” style from the Styles menu | Choose from 24 ‘Built-in’ Styles.
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6\/8: This is similar to 12\/8. Two bars of 6\/8 make up one bar of 12\/8, so 6\/8 is done in 4\/4 as well. Think of 6\/8 as 2 beats of 4\/4 in a triplet feel. For an example of this, go to the Styles menu | Choose from 24 ‘Built-in’ Styles, and select the “Irish” style. You can set the number of beats per bar to 2 in the Edit | Settings for Current Bar dialog (F5).
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9\/8: This is like a waltz (3\/4) style in a triplet feel.
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5\/4, 6\/4, 7\/4 etc.: Songs in time signatures like 5\/4 and 7\/4 can be made. Just pick a base time signature of 3\/4 or 4\/4, then for the song, select the time signature of 5\/4 or 7\/4 from the Edit | Set Time Signature menu item. Note that for time signatures higher than 4\/4, each bar of 5\/4 etc. will be spread over two or more bars in Band-in-a-Box. For example, 5\/4 alternates between a bar of 3 and a bar of 2.<\/p>\n
You can use the Search function in the StylePicker to find styles written for a specific compound time signature.
Note: Styles Set 38 for Band-in-a-Box (“About Time”) has many excellent styles with unusual time signatures such as 5\/4, 7\/8, 11\/8, 14\/8, and 19\/16. These styles have been written so that, for example, a bar of 5\/4 occupies exactly one bar in Band-in-a-Box, rather than being spread out over two bars. Styles Set 38 requires Band-in-a-Box Version 11 or higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[36349],"storecat":[],"itemids":[2023,2030],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n