Guitars

A Quick “Check-In” — and a New Email Address

Greetings to you all! As you likely know, I’ve stepped back a bit from keeping my blog updated. As many of you no doubt experience from time to time, situations dictate that your point of focus must change. That happened to me. I had gotten into piano tuning a number of years ago, and more […]

AI-Generated music

What Should AI Mean to You as a Songwriter?

If you’re a songwriter and you’ve been paying attention to how AI has been impacting the world of music, you’re probably feeling more than a bit of anxiety. Things are changing quickly, and I think it’s definitely not an exaggeration to say that today’s AI generated songs and performances can fool a lot of (and […]

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What AI (Might) Mean For Songwriting

How the role of computers in the creative arts has changed! It wasn’t very long ago that using a computer in music practically always meant using it in some aspect of sound synthesis. So you’d use a computer, or computerized device to generate a particular kind of sound. And at those times, a big challenge […]

Creating Songs With AI

What AI Is (Possibly) Doing to Songwriting

Lyrics become all the more powerful when they’re properly paired with a good melody. That’s what Chapter 5 is all about in the eBook “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting.” Polish your songwriting technique with the 10-eBook Bundle. Computers have been a part of the world of music and songwriting for a good forty years now. […]