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AI-generated jazz solos

Why does this double-time break by Louis...

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Someone showed me those AI programs, like Suno. They do a style of tune, like jazz, and generate a progression. Chord progressions aren't copyright so they don't really do solos, rather they...

AI-generated jazz solos

I've always used a contour gauge to guide and check progress. These are inexpensive (about $10) simple devices with a line of sliding fingers in a row. Gently press one edge against the surface...

How precisely does an archtop bridge need to fit?

I don't know, it's hard to understand to what extend our relationship to art is shaped by our perception of it being a culturally significant activity. There is a big element of art that is striving...

AI-generated jazz solos

Which do those lawn-mover robots BTW with hedgehogs, in case someone intends to buy one.

Way OT: Cordless Leaf Blower

They even sent it to me in Germany for free for a while. Tons of real info. What impressed me was that PE's samples where triggered live and not by a sequencer. ...

(At least) three major guitar magazines are calling it quits

Sustain = how long the note will ring. The more energy of the string that goes into producing sound in the air, the faster the note decays. It's just simple physics. A semihollow guitar radiates...

Ibanez vs Ibanez!

My favorite quote on AI so far: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so I can do Art and Writing, not to do Art and Writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." --Joanna Maciejewska

AI-generated jazz solos

Computer generated singers have been selling out concerts in Japan for 15 years. That's before all the AI invasion in music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMmcsH0fo8

AI-generated jazz solos

"Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both but hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz." -- Louis Armstrong

Why does this double-time break by Louis Armstrong sound bebop-ish to me?

Beautiful thoughts. Thanks!! Michael Hill is one of my favorite blues composers, players, and singers. His lyrics are pure poetry, and some of his writing could be the subject of multiple PhD...

(At least) three major guitar magazines are calling it quits

AI needs to be regulated, swiftly and strictly.

AI-generated jazz solos

I don't rake them anymore in my back yard, I just lawn mower over them which chops them up into little pieces.

Way OT: Cordless Leaf Blower

I've used this Barney Kessel riff before. From what I could tell, Jim Hall threw away the changes and played something else, except for the bridge on The Bridge, that was standard comping, to me. ...

Dexterity

Early BB King reminds me of Charlie Christian! (Love the tune BB Boogie.) The chromatic fragments in Louis' break remind me of Barry Harris' phrases, especially the one he calls '4'. In the key of...

Why does this double-time break by Louis Armstrong sound bebop-ish to me?

(Rant mode on:) Maybe I'm late to notice that, but I was listening to an album in spotify while at work on my computer and when the album was over, spotify moved on to a playlist of similar music ...

AI-generated jazz solos

Two Sides of One Coin: “So What” Grant Green/Wes Montgomery

Matteo Mancuso burns

How many of you play Jazz on a Strat?

Update on TC Combo Deluxe 65 pedal review

(At least) three major guitar magazines are calling it quits

Looking for a Jazzbox

Manzer vs. Parker in the ultra high-end archtop sphere?

Anyone convert BH terminology?

Unusual chord notation

George Benson selling his personal guitars on Reverb

Westone Choice

Who is the best\your favorite chord melody/solo jazz guitar player ever and why?

So this happened (Heritage Eagle Classic)