Trouble of course for the gigging pro is, he doesn’t want to sound like a polished CD! He (or she!) wants to sound like a live band..!

And, as styles become more and more accurate to the original CD, it makes it more and more pointless to use a style! If you want to sound EXACTLY like the original, you can either go to Karaoke-version.com and get a multitrack version that’s darn close (still closer than the style can get it) or you use AI tools on the original to remove the vocals…

What used to make arrangers great was HAVING to come up with unique versions because something identical wasn’t available. We now are able to have the original track itself back us after we’ve removed the leads, and we can screw with the structure, the tempo AND key, all on the fly with nothing more expensive than a tablet!