Learn To Play Saxophone with the help of computers

I bought my Band in a Box by (PG) ver 2012 pro  from a firm in Nottingham
with a full genuine licence.
For 1 penny less than ?100 checkout http://www.musiconmypc.co.uk/software.
The American prices are half this.
June

Find songs in Band in a Box

Over a period of 10 years I have collected almost 56,000 songs in Band in a Box
The song picker cannot cope with so many styles and songs.

I needed an easy way of creating a complete listing in excel
once the data is loaded into a spreadsheet it becomes easy to find the various versions of the songs.

My solution was to make a batch file in Windows XP

the following text can be pasted into notepad and the file saved as makelist.bat and saved to c:\bb
or where your music is stored.
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Rem copy the makelist.bat into your bandbox folder usually c:\bb 
Rem cd c:\bb     run the batch file makelist.bat
echo Make a list of music files in Band in a Box and open excel
dir *.m* /b /s /n > listing.txt
echo open listing.txt with excel
echo use just one wide column to import data with no filters
echo Use excel to find *.mxx music files
echo off
start excel.exe "listing.txt"
echo complete
rem once excel has loaded the new text file skip the deleminiating option
rem change A column width to about 160
rem to find all your songs enter the most relevant part of the file name, find all
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I play soprano, and alto saxophone I never have to buy music or search for hours in the Library for music.
I like to scribble my own notes on my music score.
Modify the music a little to my own taste.
The database of songs and music to download is quite incredible nearly all are free
Including Jazz Fake Books name any song and you can find the music in BB format.
BB music files are tiny and are usually in a zipped format.
This one program "Band in a Box by PG". Is valuable just for the database of songs.
I use Sibelius for editing notation.
From BB. You can save the music to a midi file and edit the score with your favourite music program.

Many people ask me how I get start with Band in a Box
Tom Willett has put together a very good tutorial on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XZAdEV54w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL2AA6881238DF822F

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75 of the worlds greatest jazz classics.
312 page pdf free download from:-

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The big book of jazz.pdf
(67.55 MB)