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Heart Attack — Demi Lovato

I bought Band-in-a-Box back in the Atari and PC Dos 5/Windows 3.1 days. I bought it to practice sax improvisation with. BiaB could be my back-up band while I tried things out from a book many of us have, “Patterns For Jazz”. @John Vere, I think it's a fine choice for your grandson. If your grandson has trouble with it, I'll be happy to help him out. The app has come a long way since then, and added quite a few features. Its original function was as an auto-accompaniment app, and that's where it shines. IMO, the output isn't pro quality, but it's better than a lot of bands that are out there gigging. I started writing aftermarket Style Disks and Fake Disks for it in the early 1990s. They added the feature, and as a multi-instrumentalist and music arranger, I tried my hand at it. With encouragement from my frieds who also had BiaB, I took out an ad in Keyboard Magazine, and before I knew it I had a mail-order business. It turned into my own little e-tail business https://www.nortonmusic.com and I have customers in over 100 different countries now. Personally, I like the MIDI styles better than the Real Styles. Why? As I said, IMO, the output isn't pro quality. Since MIDI is thousands of times more editable, I can export the end product from BiaB, import it into a DAW like Cakewalk, and turn the very good song into an excellent one. I can get move or get rid of inappropriate drum rolls, change the instrument voices, change chord inversions, fix the occasional inappropriate note BiaB creates, add song specific licks/figures, add expressive elements, etc. see https://www.nortonmusic.com/midi_vs_loops.html BiaB has a notation editor, but I like a dedicated notation editor better, like Encore, MuseScore, Sibelius, and others. They allow you to do things that the BiaB notation editor cannot. But as a music auto-accompaniment app, BiaB is the best in the biz. I've written “For Hire” styles for one arranger keyboard and two other auto-accompaniment apps, and the output of BiaB is far superior. IMO, every electronic musician needs (In order of importance): A DAW/MIDI sequencer like Cakewalk Band-in-a-Box A dedicated notation editor This is probably TMI, but once I get started on BiaB, I have trouble stopping. After all, it has become my “moonlighting” business. Notes ♫

Like Live Horses — Elton John

Walkin' — Stanley Turrentine (One of my all-time favorite tenor sax players)

I asked a Frenchman if he played video games, he said wii.

They "wigged out"

Walking To New Orleans — Fats Domino

What good does it do you to be famous when you're dead? I guess that's why Elvis Presley faked his death, gained a lot of weight, went bald, got unrecognizable, and enjoyed his money. BTW, did you ever see the cult film Bubba Ho-Tep? It's an absurd and stupid little comedy, but it's pretty funny. From Wiki: Bubba Ho-Tep is a 2002 American comedy horror film written, co-produced and directed by Don Coscarelli. It stars Bruce Campbell as Sebastian Haff, a man residing in a nursing home who claims to be the real Elvis Presley. The film also stars Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy, explaining that he was patched up after the assassination, dyed black, and abandoned.

Thinking about this. It's very dangerous. If the Supreme Court decides any president doesn't have to obey the law, and has complete immunity, it'll turn the USA into the biggest, baddest, Banana Republic on the planet. Then, the president could send all his/her political opponents to the 'salt mines'.

Night Train — Viscounts (Of all the songs I've learned on the sax, this is the one that has been requested the most. It's faded from the request pool now, but in past decades I'd get a request to do this a few times per night. Originally done by Jimmy 'Night Train' Forrest, but this is the version I played.)

Going To A Go Go — Smokey Robinson And The Miracles

This is not meant as a left or right political statement, sometimes my brain just goes to weird places… If the Supreme Court decides that Mr. Trump has total presidential immunity for anything he did or could do, then Mr. Biden can have Mr. Trump killed.

The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.

Dare To Be Stupid - Weird Al Yankovic

We may need to invent Artificial, Synthetic Stupidity, or A.S.S., for short. Notes ♫

But the way she expressed herself made her a fortune. That's why tone doesn't matter, if you can express yourself in a way that touches the audience.

Woman From Tokyo — Deep Purple

The piano cost less to maintain.