If you use PG Music's Band-in-a-Box(tm) music software, then you know it can be difficult to determine the chords for a song to enter into Band-in-a-Box unless you happen to already have the sheet music for the song. Notation Musician serves as a great companion to Band in a Box at an inexpensive price! If you can find a MIDI file on the Internet for your song (you usually can) then you can use Notation Musician to automatically analyze the chord names for the song. Then you can use those chord names to enter in your Band-in-a-Box (tm) song.

Musician can accurately analyze harmonies in a MIDI score to determine chord names and display them above the top staff, as illustrated below:

When Musician analyzes the song for chords, you can specify which types of chords will be detected, in a dialog box such as illustrated below:

Different styles of music tend to use different kinds of guitar chords or piano chords. Choose from Country, Jazz, Hymn, Easy, and many other types, or create your own style.

You select which staves (tracks) to use in the chord analysis, and let Musician do the work!

Once Musician displays the chord names in your MIDI file song, you can quickly type these chord names into Band-in-a-Box(tm). Musician does the work of analyzing the chord names and placement for you!