2014 Best Tools for Schools from the Winter NAMM Show – Best Jazz Teaching Tool
Students, educators, musicians and songwriters around the world have been using Band-in-a-Box for over 25 years.

Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest… Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns.

Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks – actual recordings of top studio musicians. They sound like real musicians, because they ARE real musicians!

– Quickly generate or load a song for accompaniment for a private or class lesson.
– With RealTracks, students are able to study top studio musicians playing in a wide variety of styles (over 2,200)!
– Generate original songs for sight reading drills at any level.
– Save your Band-in-a-Box song composition as a video, that you can upload to YouTube or work with in video programs. For example, you can make a backing track for a chord progression, and upload it to YouTube for others to play along to; do a visual transpose and upload a second version for Bb tenor sax players.
– Easily transpose the key and tempo.
– Easily create simpler arrangements for less advanced students.
– Instantly generate Soloist tracks to learn how to solo.
– Practice sight reading by following the on-screen notation.
– Watch the notes being played on the Guitar Fretboard or the Big Piano Windows.
– Practice your ear training by playing along with the chord progressions in the generated songs.
– Load in practice progressions such as II – V – I in all keys or Dominant 7th cycle of 4ths.
– Render your songs to wave files, MP3, AIFF, or WMA’s to send to your students.
And much more!