Howdy Bob,

It must be a lot of fun learning piano with some jazzy pieces like this!

If your teacher is recording to the soloist track in Biab, then the part that s/he's playing should be all in that track. There is also another piano track in the MIDI file, which may be confusing things somewhat, though I did notice that the volume for that track was set to zero.

I'm attaching a file below. The steps that I took to get there are as follows:

1. Open the .mid file, and click "Part/Select part from one or more staves"

2. I selected the "Soloist (BB)" staff. You'll notice there is also a small box at the bottom that you can select to "Mute the staves not displayed". This may be helpful if you want to give full attention to only the part you've selected.

3. Clicked ok, then kept the name "Soloist (BB)"

4. All the notes now display on one clef. So I clicked the "Staff/Split hands" in the menu bar.

5. Click on the "Soloist (BB)" staff (it's the only one there. You'll also see that there is a "Transcription Options" button you can click, to select between Standard, Swing, or Syncopated rhythms. You may find this useful for different styles, as this option will then reproduce the notation more faithfully to something that is more easily readable, and thus more easily played.

6. Click "ok" (I kept the transcription option "standard" in this example).

7. I didn't adjust the file any farther than this. However, you can look through a "split hands" like this and see that some of the notes are probably notated on the "wrong" clef. To move these notes to the proper clef, you just click on the note, then use the Shift key, and the Up/Down arrow buttons to move the note from one clef to the other.

If you haven't done it already, it would probably be helpful to you to work through the relatively short Tutorial section. You can find it under "Help/Quick Start Tutorial". It will take you through a number of tasks that you can do with Musician, and will give you a good feel for how the program is designed.

I hope this is helpful!
ttfn,
Sherry
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