Impro-Visor
Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor) is an
educational, music notation program designed to help musicians compose
and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. It helps to
musicians
improve their understanding of tunes based on chord changes and
solo construction. The software is particularly oriented towards jazz
solos.
Use Impro-Vistor to create improvised solos, tunes,
transcriptions, or bass lines in the form of lead sheets (chord symbols
with melody). The software also generates styled accompaniment
automatically from chord progressions, and provides a database for
storing and retrieving licks. It creates new licks and full solos based
on a user-modifiable grammar that can be learned from transcriptions.
Music information is stored as open text files.
Features include:
- Lead sheets and solos can be constructed through either
point-and-click or using a plain text editor (one is provided, but any
editor can be used)
- Automatic note coloration shows whether notes are consonant
or dissonant with chords and scales
- Chords may also be entered quickly through a "roadmap"
editor, which also analyzes chord changes for implied keys and
idiomatic progressions ("bricks")
- Harmonic note entry option guides the user to select notes
that are consonant with harmony. Similarly, transposition options
provide chromatic or harmonic transposition
- Solos or solo fragments can be played back immediately with
automatic rhythm section accompaniment
- Database capability for creating, saving, and recalling
licks
- Lick generation capability based on a user-modifiable
grammar
- Auto-generated playback accompaniment in various styles
- Style extraction (from MIDI) capability
- Chord-voicing tool
- Leadsheet notation
- Export solos and heads to MusicXML and as MIDI files
- Musical knowledge, including lick generation, database,
lead sheets, styles, and other information, is represented as text
files, permitting the tool to be customized
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