Auto-generated accompaniment

Whistle
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Yes, I do know that the best accompaniment is a guy with guitar/bouzouki/etc sitting near you. But there are cases when you don’t have a guy of that sort :slight_smile:

When I’m bored of playing alone or with a metronome, I usually take a midi made from some ABC with gutar chords from AbcExplorer and remove the melody line. Then you have very simple piano accompaniment - better than metronome, but still not too much.

It sounds like that: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjioygpq1k (my playing sucks, I know, but that’s not the point)


Is there some easy way to make accompaniment better? I don’t know how to play guitar, so all I have are these guitar chords from tunebooks.

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ABCwin used to have the ‘cyberbacker’ feature that put chords to tunes and play it as MIDI.

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I’ve had some fun in the past playing with Band-in-a-Box using some of the user-generated styles for this sort of thing…

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It’s not an “easy” way to do it, but here’s how I generate accompaniment for myself:

First, I use a program called Harmony Assistant, which is basically a program that lets you write and play sheet music. To go with it, I got a program called RealGuitar, which takes input from a midi port and generates guitar backing. Then I got a program called LoopBE to create a virtual midi port, and directed Harmony Assistant’s output to that midi port. RealGuitar takes Harmony Assistant’s input and generates guitar backing. Voila!

Here’s what it winds up sounding like:
http://daleth.podbean.com/2008/05/29/king-of-the-fairies/