The irony that we're automating the production of art instead of the jobs everybody hates shouldn't be lost on us.

@VideoArchiveGuy

5 ай бұрын

Actually, AI is automating EVERYTHING, art OR tedious jobs.

@maxonmendel5757

5 ай бұрын

​@@VideoArchiveGuybut we blue collar people still get up at 5am every morning to help your ai generated world run. workers deserve better.

@tammy1001

5 ай бұрын

​@@maxonmendel5757AI is coming for white collar jobs not blue. For once you are more safe than others when big changes are happening.

@VideoArchiveGuy

5 ай бұрын

@@tammy1001 AI is coming for any job it's possible to do using AI. Some jobs - typically skilled crafts - will be immune. AI will not be doing finish carpentry or installing cabinets anytime soon, nor many jobs in the construction trades, for example.

@herroberbesserwisser7331

5 ай бұрын

​@@tammy1001if jobs are automated by ai why aren't the workers happy? If automization happens, doesn't it help the people? Less work needs to be done so less people have to work for the same quality of life as production can increase.

Some Pop music has been so quantized, processed and formulated that it might as well be AI.

@Genious.

5 ай бұрын

I've been finding that most pop music still has a tiny bit of soul, heart and humanity to it and finally, AI will be able to eradicate that completely.

@transformationgeneration

5 ай бұрын

well said. @@Genious.

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

exactly. pop has been working towards the artificial sound for so long, it just made it easier to cross the gap. most other genres are equally as guilty though.

@vaporman442

5 ай бұрын

The ironically funny thing about that is that AI is making it possible to bring a more human feel to quantization (randomizing small timing fluctuations to make it sound less robotic.)

@noneatallatanytime

5 ай бұрын

There really is no difference. It is just one more added step of automation.

It sounds like the system was trained exclusively on stock music. The sounds and riffs remind me of all the stock music I've used for years.

@oliverholland7236

5 ай бұрын

Exactly, the first thing I thought was that it sounds like generics, copyright free background music on a vlog.

@trustedsource1273

5 ай бұрын

Same. The royalty free libraries to make corporate videos or lessons. Not free, royalty free.

@maxonmendel5757

5 ай бұрын

I think what we're missing is that stock music is still made by humans for money 💰

@joethompson9124

5 ай бұрын

Yes, I guarantee they only used stock royalty free music to train it. Garbage in, garbage out.

@OTLCellartapes

5 ай бұрын

reluctantly, and to a horrible strict formula yeah @@maxonmendel5757

“If I knew where the good songs come from I’d go there more often.” - Leonard Cohen

I think a bigger problem with AI is kids not understanding why they should learn to play instruments or paint a picture when they can get instant results without having to work for it. I hear that kind of questions on repeat like a mantra from young people at the moment. Playing guitar and drawing has been what gives me energy to go on day after day. Taking that away from coming generations would be a sad thing indeed.

@ericporter1255

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. Kids nowadays are hunting for that instant gratification that only short cuts can provide. Imagine dropping your kid off at the local music store for his AI lessons

@katrinavons.

5 ай бұрын

I'm in an burnout rehab center right now, and guess what? Patients get to do therapies which involve creativity all of the time! Painting, drawing, pottery, sculpting, music,... They learn to express themselves and their feelings and feel joy - again. This is what art is for, in my opinion. Don't let kids and adults rob themselves from this source of joy and aliveness. Humans need all of this "useless stuff" to stay sane.

@matslarsson5988

5 ай бұрын

​@@katrinavons.Good luck with burnout rehab. Sounds like something I'd need.

@hesselvanderkooij4825

5 ай бұрын

Agree with you so much. This was NOT what we got promised 20 years ago when AI was just a Dream.

@dominusblandus

5 ай бұрын

same but different: my trainee asked me why there should be live-concerts at all if you could just play the (perfect mix) music from tape... he said he never has been to a proper musicfestival or rock-conert. I think its a strange lack of experience the real deal.

for all the real musicians out here, nothing will kill the joy of musicians making music together jamming

@braulindisla-elburrodelaba5361

4 ай бұрын

True

@ssmithstudios

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I'm physically disabled and music saved my life. I'm a mixer, guitarist, songwriter, etc...I found purpose in making and producing music. Is it always good? Nah. I try though, and I have fun doing it.

@jeremyhilton6

4 ай бұрын

You'll see

@danamundy1187

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree!!! 👍🏽👍🏽

“This music is still better than the Spotify top ten!” Funniest Rick quote EVER. Love your work mate!❤

@Guitar_by_aalataur

5 ай бұрын

It was from the chat

@axecalibore

5 ай бұрын

I think that's probably true. Real music is in a lamentable state of disrepair nowadays.

@u.v.s.5583

4 ай бұрын

Truth hurts! Nothing funny there, sad reality :))

So glad I'm 62 and grew up listening to real music! Enough with fixing everything to death. Let's go back to singers who could sing and players who could play. Imperfections are beautiful and the risks are thrilling.

@OZRIC1985

5 ай бұрын

AMEN!!!

@OTLCellartapes

5 ай бұрын

you sir are gold

@JohnSmith-pn4it

5 ай бұрын

60 yo here and I couldn't agree more!

@Flagrazi

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 55 here

@SusanHarris-Hummert

5 ай бұрын

Karen Carpenter needed nothing. Her voice was velvet and spot on each time.

I’m getting major keyboard demo track vibes from all these

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

5 ай бұрын

Those demo tracks are written and recorded by people.

@nickmonk7945

5 ай бұрын

I couldn’t put my finger on it, but you’ve summed up what I thought nicely

@Nobddy

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxyeah, people who are phoning it in

@joethompson9124

5 ай бұрын

I guarantee they only used stock royalty free music to train it. Garbage in, garbage out.

@Strideo1

5 ай бұрын

Just like a lot of generic music used in various ads right now.

The second Boston album had disclaimers: “No synthesizers used, No computers used.” We need a new disclaimer, “No A.I. used”.

@chaos120

5 ай бұрын

I think at least one rage against the machine album says something like "all sounds created by guitar"

@chaos120

5 ай бұрын

Some people will lie

@staggerlee7301

5 ай бұрын

@@chaos120I’m pretty sure every Rage album had that, but I could be misremembering

@davidbroadfoot1864

5 ай бұрын

"No computers used" implies "no AI used."

@louiebee6745

5 ай бұрын

70s Queen albums as well.

RB, Profound gratitude for the video and keeping us updated on developments. I hope there'll always be a place for human musicians who play live music.

Dear Rick, it’s always a pleasure listening to your voice and watching your videos. Did you ever consider offering bass lessons?

I've followed artists like Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen my whole live. I've grown up with them and grown old with them. I don't think AI generated music can give me that kind of life experience..,

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

5 ай бұрын

@@FREEDOM_OR_DEATH_ Lossless earbuds?

@Gustavo_PerezRamirez

5 ай бұрын

The problem is new audiences don't really care where the music comes from as long as it is catchy enough to use it on their lame TikTok's and IG stories.

@josephmayfield945

5 ай бұрын

Art has becoming disposable commodity to the general public. They don’t care.

@thirstyhorsemongolia6264

5 ай бұрын

Never a truer word spoken.

@andrewichigo

5 ай бұрын

The issue will be the newer generations who'll be bombarded with this kind of music instead. We can rely on past expeirences and their associated sounds. The peopel really delving into music in 5 to 10 years will only have human-less sounds churned out by the baker's dozen every hour by a computer.

I agree that AI generated content should not be copyrighted... because an AI modeler can run continuously to build every conceivable chord, tempo and melody combination; which would cripple any real songwriting.

@sdrc92126

5 ай бұрын

I wrote a program to do that 20 years ago. The problem was most sounded like crap. But I searched for the theme to _Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind_ in the output and found it.

@Cyber.Lynx.

5 ай бұрын

Took the words right out of my mouth. It would be the realization of the infinite monkey theorem only with lawyers. Shoot me now, please.

@nathan87

5 ай бұрын

This whole argument must re-examine the fundamental reasons copyright was invented to begin with and whether they apply to AI generated music. In short, copyright should apply to work that is the result of substantial human labour done without compensation, to allow the author to be compensated after the fact. Hitting a button and generating music in a fraction of the time that it would take a traditional musician is simply not that, so copyright should not apply.

@sdrc92126

5 ай бұрын

@@nathan87 A human can always say that they wrote it and ai had nothing to do with it.

@jameshughes3014

5 ай бұрын

Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin already did something like that, in 2020. I don't think it required AI to do it.

7:03 that subtle roast… 😂 This is too good. Great upload, Rick 😂🔥🙏

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

Then he says "it's better than the Spotify top ten" 😂

So far, those AI clips have all the personality as a Casio preset.

@jessejordache1869

5 ай бұрын

Hey, that 16-beat preset got me hyper as a little kid.

@shyboy2112

5 ай бұрын

give it 6 months

@vandpiben

4 ай бұрын

Its not AI its automated statistics

@jessejordache1869

4 ай бұрын

@@vandpiben That's sort of what modern AI is: massive amounts of data that spit out polynomials until you get an output that you want. Unless you're arguing that AI isn't TRUE AI, since it's not symbolic logic like the early attempts at AI were, which is defensible. I'd like to know what the target is for music: the AI has to be able to distinguish between "wack" and "street banger!" when it's learning.

@vandpiben

4 ай бұрын

@@jessejordache1869 "intelligence" requires a value system in order to differentiate between good and bad. Life has this in build because every cell is fighting for its life/replication. The ego is a super structure of this. A computer doesnt have this hardwired in every neuron. It is dictated by us, what to prioritize or not. Thats just a "tool" without integrity/self-reliance, its nothing but a better calculator. Pareidolia is the phenomena of spotting faces in the sky, it doesnt mean there are faces, it just looks like it. AI is a scam in the sense that it is being marketed as if it was more than just numbers being indexed, filtered and ordered, when it is nothing more than just that. It looks like it has a "self" but it is really just numbers being shown like a face in the sky. And people fall for this. Thats how they are being tricked. Disclaimer: I work with "AI" in a quantitative hedge fund.

This is gonna put a lot of infomercial composers out of business

@BurnsRubber

5 ай бұрын

You mean, like all of them. 😂

@RickReasonnz

5 ай бұрын

And this is the target of these companies. I find the chat hilarious how they found this 'bad' when these tunes are not made for the high discerning musician in mind. For filler segments, for tv/radio ads, background of videos, these tunes are really going to find their place.

@RockessentialTim

5 ай бұрын

Exactly! My guess is we're already hearing it constantly and just don't realize it @@RickReasonnz

@zxbc1

5 ай бұрын

And in a few years putting all entry and amateur level freelance musicians out of business. You might be skeptical but that's how it is regarding text and programming already. It's only a matter of time.

@arqoo1907

5 ай бұрын

​@@zxbc1so genuine, or real, musicians need to adapt. Playing "live" music will be one way to differentiate yourself from a robot. Singing with an accent, playing your instrument with a unique style, using clever and/or meaningful lyrics or poetry should all allow differentiation. Or maybe us musicians need to release videos alongside our uploads - to prove we're not AI and that it's really a human singing or playing... Once AI gets its hands on the nuclear button it won't matter anyway 😅

AI may be able to mimic sequences but the spirit of what makes music transformative is still found within the creative soul of minds breathing in songs. Computers do not feel, sleep nor dream....

@zxbc1

5 ай бұрын

People used to say that about creative writing, and look where AI is now. It's only a matter of time, trust me.

@curtisbryce5096

5 ай бұрын

It is like autotune, yes it can hold the note BUT singing is about hitting the note, not sustaining it. . . . . . what the hell do I know?

@gp33music41

5 ай бұрын

Record companies won't see it that way

@TallicaMan1986

5 ай бұрын

Creative soul is too abstract for it to matter. I dont know why humans keep insisting on these unquantifiable abstract things to differentiate us from machines, conciousness and soul cant be defined, detected heard or felt. Its literally Not Going to matter and youre dishonest if you like a a piece and then suddenly dislike it after finding out its Ai. Its not a matter ofif, but when it will start fooling anti ai people. Its already happening in art.

@chadlyb8914

5 ай бұрын

Very romantic idealism 🫣

when doing traditional image art, i feed sketches to AI to help make reference images, and it has boosted my creativity and helped me expand as an artist, even though I don't use the AI in my final image. I suspect this kind of thing will be the same with AI music. Just a new tool in the toolbox as far as I'm concerned, I'm excited for it.

@robotron07

5 ай бұрын

people don’t understand that AI is a refined tool that is most effective when you have the basis of your craft down, to create quality products with its help you are better off when you lñknow how to draw pint play etc the more you know the best results you will produce in collaboration with AI

@jameshughes3014

5 ай бұрын

@@robotron07 yeah I can understand that. I feel like traditional artists who haven't played with the stuff only see the generic output that floods the net, and it kind of makes them think it's all trash. It's cool, you can make good music with a rubber band and shoe box, and good art with a pencil. Or use computers or synths.. as long as you're expressing yourself, imo

@johng1412

5 ай бұрын

@@jameshughes3014 what AI are you using? I am interested in using it just as you have described.

@jameshughes3014

5 ай бұрын

@@johng1412What I use is almost a year old, so probably outdated but I like it. I've got a half way decent video card so I installed automatic1111 locally, which is an interface. It makes installing the rest of the stuff pretty easy. Using that I installed stable diffusion, and the addon called controlnet. controlnet is really what unlocks the great image to image features that let me feed in my sketches, and its all on my PC so it doesn't take forever and cost any money. If you have an nvidia card with enough VRAM, just look up vids about automatic1111, it'll walk you through the steps.

So glad I started learning guitar before AI music went mainstream! Nothing can compare to the satisfaction of producing notes with your own fingers! Trains your brain, soul & body at once♡

Far better than most of the canned music I hear on KZread videos. I have a feeling we are entering the golden age of background music on KZread videos. lol

@OTLCellartapes

5 ай бұрын

it will make it exactly like that though no golden age - just the capturing of what you currently hate and it's elevation to the new high standard

Can't wait to hear how your testimony goes!! I wish you would break down a Big Wreck song. They just dropped another EP yesterday called Pages 1

@kennethcrowther2277

5 ай бұрын

Given what AI can learn, that probably won't always be the case, at least in terms of making good sounding music. Nevertheless I will always avoid AI generated music purely on principle.

@jivanbansi9640

5 ай бұрын

What a solid soulful band!

the word was tumbling in my mind, and you said it! regurgitate! Some of what you played felt like an 80s time machine. I am 66, I will always remember years ago, the first time I play Yes Fragile for my son, almost 40. He was stunned.

Ambient style is calm, simple and generally easier to accept. It's harder to mess it up

Nobody's laughing at the white hoodie. Don't be paranoid about your hoodie. Nothing wrong with the hoodie.

Sounds like early midi, which sounded like a player piano. Look where midi is after 30 years. This will develop faster. Keep an eye on it and learn it. But overall it makes me miss my Roland R8 drum machine

I can see this being useful for background music in instructional or product videos and that's about it. That or anything on Spotify.

Thank you so much for this content. It is really interesting to see what it is and is not possible to achieve with AI. I don't know if this is the place to ask you, but anyway I'll do it. I love the content of your channel, and I've learnt a lot about how to understand and appreciate music with you; but do you think in future (far or close) it would be possible for you guys, as crew production, to have interviews with musicians from other parts of the world, aside of Europe and The States? I'm from Latin America, and I know for the fact that I always observe your streaming live chat that you have a lot of fans in other parts of the world; and also I know (and I know you know) in Latin America there are great musicians. Well it is just an idea. If it's not possible I will go on watching your videos, because are always fun and full of good information. Thank you so much for everything you do for music.

@jessiehermit9503

4 ай бұрын

He never reads his comments. Also, he should have Juanez.

Would love to see or hear congressional hearing if you can get a recording of it....good man rick ❤

A good course on music appreciation specific to certain music genres would be great.

It seems as if it will be "challenging" to get AI to make anything with purpose - artists, writers, musicians, anyone really makes stuff with some purpose, while AI mainly makes stuff because someone pushes a button. The difference might not be too big on the run-of-the-mill eurodisco song or airport-bookshop novel, but other than that I think we will notice.

@kevinvitale8980

5 ай бұрын

Agree… I think AI will ‘train’ future generations this your new expectations. Mediocre, bland works. They will not know what is good if all they are is exposed to this drivel.

The hoodie looks good on you Rick. Just bought a bearskin hoodie for myself. The technology is amazing and I'm sure artists will use it to create songs and then just play them themselves. No more writers block. I created a few songs that I really like but I would rather play them myself.

The multilanguage thing is a great idea 🎉

Rick, I just purchased your Black Friday bundle. It's a great value. Do you ever plan to offer your ear Training course in app form?

I'll start panicking when AI starts to produce masterpieces such as Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin", Procul Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever", "A Day In The Life", "I Am The Walrus", Paul Simon's "Graceland" and "Rhythm Of The Saints" albums, Steely Dan's "Aja" and "Gaucho", Ray Davies singing "Waterloo Sunset", "Sunny Afternoon" or "Dead End Street", Neil Young performing ""The Needle And The Damage Done" or "Old Man". And that's just a few from the top of my head. "Supper's Ready". "Bohemian Rhapsody". "Like A Rolling Stone". And so on. The problem with AI is not that it is going to reach the heights of musicality which makes it indistinguishable from great art. The problem is that the listening public is being dumbed down to the point that they now accept utter shite as the equivalent of great artistry in the field of music. I'd rather hear a bum note in a Beatles, SInatra or Dylan classic than endure a sterile, antiseptic, unhuman AI construct which doesn't even come close to reaching my soul and spirit.

@CaoTriPham

4 ай бұрын

The best thing they could do is have input as a simple piano sheet or tab, then convert them to proper music, with all kind of instruments, arrangements,...

@ts4gv

4 ай бұрын

You're right, AI will be subpar but good enough to totally wreck the industry. But then it will get better than the Beatles. There's no reason to believe there's an upper bound on capabilities. Also AI extinction theories make too much sense to be ignored to the extent that they're currently being ignored. We need to shut it down immediately.

As if the musical accompaniment isn't bad enough on KZread videos, we have THIS to look forward to. Yeesh!

Imagine when AI wins album of the year. It will happen eventually.

@onesong2001

5 ай бұрын

It can't be any worse than an Ed Sheeran album.

@dthorne4602

5 ай бұрын

​@@onesong2001 it'll probably sound identical

The question is whether AI can create entirely new type of music? I just bought an actual couple of CDs to rip: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Will AI ever be able to take everything in a certain genre and make something really new like those two albums?

Great video as always Rick. I’ve been using the AI drummer in GarageBand on my Mac for a few years now and I love it. All the drums on my last album were all AI generated, no one has been able to tell that they were not the genuine article.

@youthofyesterdayrecords

5 ай бұрын

Is the AI drummer perfect? Or are there imperfections timed in to create a groove? Because perfect rhythm can't groove. I was in a band that used a drum machine. No matter how emotional we were, people just could not quite feel it in a live setting.

@PaulGillings

5 ай бұрын

@@youthofyesterdayrecords It just seems to work for me. As far as I know it reads the transients in your playing and adds a rhythm accordingly. I then adjust the ‘swing’ and a few other settings to make it fit better.

Good Information Rick. Top Fan On FB!!!!

They will be using this for hold music on the phone.

Rick is starting to look like Obi Wan 😂

@srwaite7

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

12:56 thats called “drum and bass” music Rick! Would love to see some electronic music content on your channel 😅

My take so far on AI is this. I haven't listened to much of it, but did hear some "Beatles" stuff. While it did indeed sound "Beatlesque", it did not sound fresh. For those that remember, every time the Beatles released new music, it had basically moved on from the last album and always had something new and fresh to offer. The AI stuff just sort of takes bits and pieces of their "signature sound" and rehashes it so to speak. But here's how I would use it. When I sit and play "sounds", or patches from my synths or sound files, it puts me in a certain mood when I hear certain things and causes me to go places I probably would not go "sitting by the river" so to speak. So as I was listening to some of the things you were playing, most was junk, but there was a gem or two in there that might trigger an emotion or a "beat" or a texture, that sort of thing within me. But if you take that germ and then put the human mind and emotion into it, expand it and actually play the parts, I can see where a hybrid could be quite good. I suppose you could say use it for inspiration. It's going to come down to mining the gems from the dirt and separating the stone and then cut and put the polish on it to get it ready for the setting. Just one man's thoughts. And don't forget, only one out of a thousand records made by humans is worth listening to as well. And it might not even be that good of a percentage. We just mostly never hear the junk because it doesn't make it to the charts.

@angela_somanythings5670

5 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree. I also think some of the comments are from people only catching the gems because the rest of the song is so BAD 😅

Now let's see how long it will take for a first episode of "What makes this song great?" on a fully AI generated song. :-)

@timgant7141

5 ай бұрын

By an AI generated Rick Beato no less!

@blainekelley816

5 ай бұрын

As laughable and bad so many of these tracks are today, it won’t be long before AI-generated music is the norm in a lot of what we hear … 😢

@onesong2001

5 ай бұрын

@@blainekelley816 Like all crap music, only if you choose to listen to it.

@joethompson9124

5 ай бұрын

​@@blainekelley816 This whole comment section is such a circle jerk for "the good old days" when music was "real" or whatever. Just listen to and support what you like, and ignore the rest... apparently that's too much to ask.

Rick's memory lapses dovetail very nicely with AI's inadequacies.

what a pain in the ass to change all of those strings, great video Rick!

8:05 that was cold

If you can smoke two joints, and AI music starts making you feel something, then we have a problem

I would suggest trying ' Suno A.I ', it might just surprise you. Create any style of song about anything you wish. It generates the music, lyrics, and even the singer/s. The free version gives you 50 credits a day to use while there are other paid models. It will give you around 50 seconds or so of the song on the free version but in others, you can create full, complete songs. Give it a try.

song you played after you played #3 on rock sounds like billy joel its just a fantasy meets the cars your just what i needed

You should try Suno next as it has generated vocals and lyrics as well.

@relaxmax6808

5 ай бұрын

Oooh Yeah !

@gunty752

5 ай бұрын

Yeah sunk is next level

@user-xv1nu8rm1j

5 ай бұрын

yes Suno AI is really surprising. You need to test some keyword combination. You get at the end a prototype song that is better than a lot of amateur bands.🤐

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

try putting 'live' or 'practice' into a suno prompt and witness how it obliterates the notion that ai can't do human.

@kokopelli314

5 ай бұрын

The phrasing and articulation of lyrics in Suno is amazing. I would use this as a teaching tool

If I made a living as a jingle writer I'd definitely be looking to branch into other fields asap.

Hey Rick! You're the best! You are changing things in this world. It's amazing. Question. Could you please get together with some musicians and talk about Led Zeppelin? Chat about how they've changed rock music and brought it to a higher level. Your Led Zep videos are the best. No question. Please, sir, sit around with friends and talk about Zep, and maybe jam together. Lord! It will be watched by everyone! Anyway, I love your contribution to music!!!Thank you!!!!

The Art is The message from one Person to another. Not just an algorythm

Its important to remember that we are at the beginning of this technology........imagine 20, 30, or 50 years from now ( providing anyone is around to listen at that time)

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

with all due respect, but please look up how quickly AI image generation evolved from nightmarish weird digital paintings to full blown photorealism and adjust your timeframe slightly🫠

It may be pretty bad now, but it’ll get a lot better - and probably sooner than expected. As others have said, the fact of its existence is concerning enough.

@staggerlee7301

5 ай бұрын

Concerning and honestly just depressing. Sad to see so many embrace the idea of it imposing on and maybe even snuffing out human expression. I’d like to remain hopeful. But yeah, we’ll find out because there’s no getting off this ride.

@colinjames2469

5 ай бұрын

dream on

@ralphbenitez4407

5 ай бұрын

When we are no longer working because AI replaced us in our jobs, I’d like to see how the government is going to get AI to pay taxes.

@pvanukoff

5 ай бұрын

@@ralphbenitez4407 The concept of humans working is going to become obsolete and sooner than we think. No telling what's on the other side of that hill, but it's going to be painful getting there.

A lot of that sounds like bumper music before the service starts in church when they play all of the program ads and what not.

Love the slander to the demos theyre amazing

Imagine if you could reach all over the world with your videos in every language

@albertoramone2

5 ай бұрын

Spanish subtitles

@1ouncebird

5 ай бұрын

That would be terrifying if used by the likes of a Putin or a Trump. Fascistic lying in all languages? Yikes!

In the early days of CDs, some companies (Telarc comes to mind) listed the equipment (microphones and monitors) and even the instruments used in the recording. Taking a cue from this, maybe the AI software in use should be given non-monitized credit like the other tools used in the production. If Recorded on BASF tape. BASF didn’t get any more than the cost of the tape. Maybe artists will sign up with certain AI software like they sign with guitar companies.

@stevenposey

5 ай бұрын

That's a really good point. The medium doesn't collect the royalties. I like it.

@stevelaferney3579

5 ай бұрын

Nope. Just AI created. Nothing else that will ever give AI any legal foothold over anything.

@stevelaferney3579

5 ай бұрын

Now by manipulating parts Rick you are making the decisions so you are now the creator using sounds.

@stevelaferney3579

5 ай бұрын

Given the beat that hip-hop uses it doesn’t take that much effort.

@stevelaferney3579

5 ай бұрын

Yeh, but AI lacks that human Emotion, sentient experience that can never be the equivalent by a computer. That’s what AI is “A computer.”

Ok this ffing great! Great video too

You're response at 7:47 had me rolling.

My peeve is, what was used to train this model, and how much of that original material is in this generated music and do they have the copyright for the source?

@mtae5

5 ай бұрын

I've been trained my whole life on existing music. Is it copyright infringement if I make music now, having been influenced by all the music I have heard?

@yurkshirelad

5 ай бұрын

@@mtae5 will you copy chunks of existing music directly into your compositions? Subconsciously, you may accidentally borrow from an existing tune, but that's a stretch I admit. This is the same problem facing software projects that were used to train AI without permission. Chunks of code appeared in AI generated code, without permission and contradicting the license the project(s) were released under. It's a real problem.

@hillehai

5 ай бұрын

@@mtae5 And you're a human being, not a software. This really all boils down to this: Do we want to value and protect human creativity like music, art, writing and so on, or do we want to extinguish it for the sake of "efficiency" and cheap imitations of human creativity? Unfortunately you, like many of those defending AI art, are on the side of "efficiency" without truly understanding the consequences of what you're advocating for. It's sad.

@pvanukoff

5 ай бұрын

@@hillehai Face the facts, at the end of the day, whatever is most commercially profitable to the large players (corporations) is what is going to win out. We (individuals) can value and protect human creativity as much as we like, but corporations value profit over all, and, like it or not, the world is run by corporate interests. I'm not defending that - I think it's awful - but it's just reality. Over time, it will be harder and harder for people to make a living off of creative endeavors.

Rick kicks AI's butt with arpeggios and doesn't break a sweat. Nothing can beat a real musician for connecting to people. I also notice the Soundraw app didn't have jazz in its genre options.

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

so... the real musicians who put their art and music into soundraw are inferior? or did you think all this was AI generated music? See the lines getting blurred?

@robshift

5 ай бұрын

@@recordednowhere Yes I agree that the lines are blurred, and will only get more so. But I can only go by my gut response to what I heard. The AI music presented left me cold. Rick playing arpeggios didn't. To be fair, much of modern music leaves me cold. I hate the autotuned vocals, the quantized rhythms, the over use of the same chord structures. It works fine in some genres such as dance music, but not in others. The problem for me with the AI music that was in this film is that to me it was the musical equivalent of having a pallet of beautiful colours that you can mix together, but without taste or skill you end up with a pastiche of art at best, or grey-brown sludge at worst.

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

@@robshift i totally get how you don't connect to 'modern music' (yes not all modern music is the same, there is a definitive countermovement, but it's comparatively tiny) . I feel the same way. In an ironic way, popular music dug its own grave by progressively getting more artificial. Quantizing everything to the grid, using samples instead of drums, pitch correcting vocals, comping lines down to syllable level...I have used all of these, but this helped getting people get used to inhuman music. This development can be seen across genres.

@robshift

5 ай бұрын

@@recordednowhere What's that line in Fight Club? Everything becomes a copy of a copy of a copy. The tools we have now have aided that and like you say, our ears have become trained to over machined music. I am an old fogey but I do listen to modern music as I am always keen to find something new. And like you say, it's out there. People will always want to pick up an instrument and create something. That's why I don't really have great concern about AI music. It will fulfil a job that it is good at doing, and almost certainly there will be a point where it won't be worth paying people to make certain genres of music (general pop, some dance, some ambient) because AI does it well enough. But no one wants hamburger all the time, sometimes you want steak.

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

​​@@recordednowhere What are they? "real musicians" that can't think of more than 3 four chord based progressions? 😂 We're not dealing with Bach here, or even Dimebag Darrel or Ani DiFranco.

I agree with you that 100% AI generated music should Not be allowed to be copyrighted. It should go straight to public domain...Then, if a human/band wanted to "cover" the song they'd have the right to their version of it.

Now all we need is a computer generated spaghetti western and a CG version of Breakfast Club. This music will be perfect!

Do this episode again as an update in 2 yrs, let's see how far they get with Generative A.I. They will machine learn every song ever made and build from that in a unique way. The World is changing.

@osman01003

5 ай бұрын

garbage in garbage out

@funnyfromadam

5 ай бұрын

It already learned tons of music genres, styles, and structures. You can make it 5 times bigger (almost impossible i think) and it will still create generectic music. Music it's not like visuals. Also, all existing music in the world will never cover the full spectrum of human creativity.

Didn't computer assisted composition of pop music already start with Stock, Aitken and Waterman? I should be grateful. They turned me to discover the music of the seventies.

@rogerramjet6615

5 ай бұрын

No S, A & W used electronic keyboards and sound sampling to produce various tones but the songs were written by human.

@ChuffingNorah

5 ай бұрын

SAW would really say: " I should be so lucky - Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!" 🤣😁

@rogerramjet6615

5 ай бұрын

@@ChuffingNorahYes. I think it could be argued that Jason & Kylie are AI robots.

@louiebee6745

5 ай бұрын

​@@ChuffingNorahHaha well said!👍

Did you see the Synthplant 2? That synth is freaking cool I must say! 💥💥

A cara que o Rick faz é hilária.

The Electro/Dance, Ambient and Hip Hop genres seem to be the easiest to emulate in AI. It makes total sense to me if you start with the computer and music generated in the software, it should be easier to sequence patterns together. I can see if a few years with the development of the Acoustic sampling algorithms that it will catch up and sound better. Remember in the 70's when synths first hit the scene- synths now sound like organic acoustic instruments with the sampling and playback algorithms. It will evolve to a standard when they algorithmically sample/record/reference every single band and composer in the world. That is when we will be having the conversation "can you tell the difference". Now it is like we are in the 70's talking about sampling...

@benjaminhawthorne1969

5 ай бұрын

I can certainly see that happening as you say. Today we are having the conversation, "Can you tell if this is "Pitch Corrected?" Tomorrow, we will be asking, "human or Artificial Intelligence Computer?" As is, in the 1970's we asked, "Is it live or is it Memorex?" 😂

@cwmmegas8319

5 ай бұрын

Nice analogy

@recordednowhere

5 ай бұрын

I have fooled real people and musicians with AI music already, and I feel true breakthroughs are just around the corner. This is not gonna take as long as it took for the whole sampling thing to take over (10-15 years?). Also, 'AI' is much cheaper already than the first "samplers" were, which surely factors in.

@cozmicpfunk

5 ай бұрын

@@recordednowhere I have not used any AI for music, but like any other software, if you know the tricks and features you can do almost anything creative given the limits :)

I'd love AI to write a Miles Davis/ Jimi Hendrix collaboration record.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

just found station, will be watching from now on

Unfortunately, I have seen how even the truly most abysmal writing has taken over my wife's field of freelance writing and editing. The biggest issue is that even though nobody wants to accept AI writing, they still expect the price of real writers to come down in line with the absolutely massive number of shitty spam accounts selling their work for nothing with absolutely no quality control. They don't care if people give them poor ratings because their prices are so low that people will still hire them, and they churn out garbage in no time, so they still come out slightly ahead. Meanwhile, the writers who don't have significant client bases and don't drop their rates aren't getting contracts or the work they do get is way underpriced for the client expectations. It's obscene.

@hillehai

5 ай бұрын

It's so depressing that this is the way we're moving. As someone who is just starting to have some success as a composer, knowing that I probably won't be able to get any work in a few years and any music I create will be burried between thousands upon thousands of AI-generated pieces is just crushing. I wonder what the great composers, artists, writers etc. that came before would say to something like this. I almost feel inclined to call AI "art" an 'abomination' at this point.

@M4TCH3SM4L0N3

5 ай бұрын

@@hillehai take heart! No, the industry you work in will not be the same, but it never would have been, either - that's not the way our world works these days, and there was always going to be change, upheaval, and drudgery in the future. Still, that doesn't mean it will be all bad or that the effects will be permanent! You will learn to adapt to the new circumstances or find another way to earn a living while doing what you love, or maybe things might get so bad that society finally wakes up from the corporate-worshipping materialistic nightmare we're all collectively upholding and decides to fight for the right of all workers to earn a fair income with enough leisure time to engage in creative pursuits on their own time without sacrificing sleep, sustenance, or shelter, and you will be happier laboring at another job while still creating beautiful things but for the joy they bring you rather than for a living. Probably not that last one, realistically, but possibly a blend of all of those things. Que será, será.

Here's one to think about... If artists sell the rights to their catalog what's stopping The new rights holder(s) from training an AI engine to generate new music from that artist, without the artist's permission or having to pay them? Thats spooky and It's beginning.

the intro of that first track was lifted direct from Maire Brennan (Clannad) her song Against the Wind

I'm also very interested in the methods record companies use to created 'payola' by using AI to boost (or create) "plays" of certain artist's songs on Spotify and KZread.

@someidiot4570

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what you think ai is but it's not used for faking streams. it's almost always click farms in third world countries and bots that load web pages

@Nebula37

5 ай бұрын

@@someidiot4570 I'm not sure what you think 'faking streams' means, but I didn't mention that. AI could be used to generate, say 100 "Best of 2023" playlists that actually include songs from 2015 - 2021 by a selected group of artists. The songs might then be picked up by a counting algorithm as 'plays' and by having hundreds (or thousands) of playlists the chances that random users might find them during a "Best of _____" playlist search are much higher. AI could also be used to generate random positive comments on these playlists to boost views. "Wow! I really love this playlist!" "This is the best music." etc. Meanwhile the artists from the playlists get thousands more worldwide 'plays' due to this dodgy arrangement ultimately leading to awards for "most plays ever" or "2 billion plays" (or whatever) when the actual number of legitimate plays has been vastly exaggerated.

If there's an AI voice model of Rick's voice, it is customary to make it sing Rap God by Eminem.

Any information on how the AI avoids accidentally violating copyrights? After all it's producing melodies, and finding a new one is quite a challenge.

@texasamericanpatriot8535

5 ай бұрын

Copywrights are over with AI music. We can't stop it, it's out of the gate.

@spiritlevelstudios

5 ай бұрын

​@@texasamericanpatriot8535you'll still get flagged for uploading pre-exisiting music to KZread. But for AI voice cloning is the wild west. You both can and probably should take any and every voice that you like and create art with it. Can't get sued if you're broke anyway, so nothing to lose as usual.

@TheCruisinCrew

5 ай бұрын

Everything in terms of melody and chord progressions basically has been written already... it's just the question if it's worth suing for... if it is, there will be a suit! ;)

@spiritlevelstudios

5 ай бұрын

@@TheCruisinCrew melodic progression possibilities are infinite. Otherwise there would be no such thing as new music. It's very easy to write brand new sounds, as a human. Very enjoyable also.

@TheCruisinCrew

5 ай бұрын

@@spiritlevelstudios Sure, almost infinite possibilities, but most sound like crap and the good ones are far fewer, particularly in pop music. You'll see more and more lawsuits where something just sounds "similar" if there's any chance for money to be extracted... ;)

My wife and I went to SF several years ago in April and exactly the same thing happened. So cold we couldn't make it down the street. Still have the fleece I bought.

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

SF has microclimates, you gotta know the right streets that block the wind and how the weather changes from district to district. I was homeless in the streets of SF, it can get really chilly, but the geography can also change the wind and temperature a few blocks away.

11.38 I find very wise - it's about like or not like, and there seems to be some mandatory taste that can be commanded, like you order a specific dish, then it's about waiting the table. DJs should be fond of AI i.e. not care as they do the choices. I cannot order you to like something or not. Anyone can be forced to listen to, but not even told to like or dislike - I hereby discover that there seems a certain Billy Joel aspect of honesty - and freedom - about this important topic. Thank you!

There should be a mandatory silent digital watermark in all AI created music, either in the inaudible data area or in metadata so that it is easy for the US copyright office to determine what percentage of the music is AI. Right now you can claim it’s human generated and the office has little resources to police it.

@buckbreaker5185

5 ай бұрын

joo

Translation can get tricky when it comes to musical details: AI frequently confuses the English term "parallel minor" with German "Moll Parallele" wich actually means "relative minor". So a "germanized" Rick Beato would say things with the meaning of: "The relative minor to the key of C major is C minor".

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

Interesting, I guess this implies that it still sucks as a basic translator. It would have to learn the usage in a particular field, for instance genetic biology or evolutionary biology as opposed to Biology itself of the larger category of Science. And human language use is so nuanced alot of the time.

i think Soundraw is actually meant for background music. Try Suno Chirp, it's not as good in terms of sound quality but in my experience it can come up with good vocal melodies

Hey Rick hope you survived your trip to San Francisco I apologize for what it has become it was once a great City but I'm sure the weather was great

I bought your arpeggio master class and so far it is awesome. I am still working on the #1 introduction part. I love the way you show the different fretboard fingerings you can use. I am hoping later in the course you show the fingerpicking techniques.I have been finger picking lately and I know there is classical picking, hybrid picking, country picking and probably a few others. I m hoping you touch on this later in the course for fingerpicking arpeggios.

AI is at ground zero in terms of music. I can imagine it improving in terms of complexity but not in terms of genuine feeling. It will be able to create beats and dance music pretty easily as time goes on, I’m sure it will. But deliver a song like Bruce Springsteen’s Highway Patrolman or Neil Young’s The Needle and the Damage Done or Cohen’s Suzanne. Don’t hold your breath.

The ambient music sounded pretty good. Like cool smartphone ringtones! 😂

A bunch of Lous Cole and Knower episodes is a must. Please, hurry up!!

You should explore the AI employed in GarageBand and Logic Pro. You can assign a drummer to play along to your recorded or MIDI tracks. You can tweak the drums used and business of them and stuff, it really did a good job with it and kind of sounded like a real drummer and beats using an ever looping its pattern drum machine.

Think of a musician like Jeff Beck. Its going to be a long time before AI can create like him. His techniques and feel are a result of live performance involving subtle overt genius.

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

😂 It's time to get weird as fuck and trashy humanity, we gotta confuse the machines. They'll never mimic my drunken whammy bar technique

@onesong2001

5 ай бұрын

AI doesn't create. It rearranges.

@onesong2001

5 ай бұрын

@@whatabouttheearth or just turn them off.

@whatabouttheearth

5 ай бұрын

@@onesong2001 Right...just like people thought it would be easy to not give a government listening device cell phone, until the technology increased in ubiquity and surrounded everyone becoming a staple of modernity itself. It won't be as easy as turning it off at certain point. This will completely change music and society forever, the question is to what extent is society going to shun computer created media in favor of the real thing produced by humans. You see the trend popping up in the SAG strike as well, where Hollywood studios were trying to make contracts with background actors where they would scan them and than use their likeness in "perpetuity", essentially across all space and time was the wording of the contract. ALL media is threatened to be swamped with barely distinguishable machine productions imitating real humans, machine productions that can learn by themselves because that is how they're programed. And if a code can hop through the internet and stowaway it could hypothetically survive attempts at destruction just as a virus can after it's programmer releases it. This isn't a simple turn of events, and this doesn't correlate with human played instruments like synthesizers, because their development wasn't to be autonomous and self learning. There are different types of AI, the self learning, deep learning type is what you need to worry about, it can collect more data than a human and humans store almost all documents and media on the internet. This is more than just mere assembly of components.

That weird kick pattern at 12:00 kind of is a vibe hahaha

Hmmm. When I think about techno, I think about What is Love by Haddaway. It is much more dynamic. And I could even see doing some interesting guitar effects to use in something. As far as Copyrights, the song I did was with a track with drums and a live guitar player track, then I added my solos. And will put it on a service to put us on I heart radio maybe, itunes etc. And I can make a split for royalties. He did give me permission to use the tracks, and I copyrighted it. Even though he said use it any way you like. My music website has my songs as well.

Those first acoustic tracks sound like ethno-teletubbi stuff. Funny thing is that music in the 80s, 90s and beyond already turned into AI level. Next do Flamenco, Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Bossa Nova, Psychadelic Rock.

@TangibleAndroid

5 ай бұрын

Facts

No matter how much AI progresses I can’t see it producing the happy human error component that gave us the flanging effect on Itchy Koo Park or the accident of leakage that gave rise to Spector’s Wall of Sound. I saw an add for the new google phone which boasted the same AI magic as used to do the Beatles Now and Then recently though 😜

Music was one of the first things to be impacted by AI, only they didn't call it AI back then. They called it Band in a Box which was released in 1990. Give it a chord sequence and a music style, it could generate music that wasn't too bad. Later editions used real samples from famous solo artists to generate novel solos in a variety of styles.

Don't quite understand : a) if I download SOUNDRAW do I get the same set of tracks Rick has here, with a growing library? b) is it an audio file or MIDI or data file - in essence can you change the sample voices c) if I take one of these pieces, put it into my workstation, chop it up and manipulate it and add to it, and score a big hit - then who owns it?

Better than the Spotify top ten------ great, hilarious but so true. 🇮🇪🙏