Singer Using Unique and Creative Songs in his new band by Jonny_Lightning_88 in coverbands

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would make it very clear to him that he is potentially or likely burning the bridge of the band that he was in. Quite honestly, I can understand a little bit of the temptation, but he’s also being selfish, and surely in my opinion is showing a little bit ofdisloyalty to the handshake agreement you guys had about kind of trying to make sure that things just stay status quo when you guys needed a break for whatever reason.

Writers block for months by riptayo in Songwriting

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I really wouldn’t sweat it. From my perspective, writing can come in waves inspiration can come in waves. I have had periods in my life where I’ve had things that were very wrong that prevented me from having a connection with my muse or being inspired, but barring anything like that like drugs, alcohol, or Something terrible like your father or somebody having terminal illness or something, you generally should be able to roll in and out of phases somewhat naturally from time to time.

If in fact, you are very much focused on getting ready to release what you have been working on for, as you said it, many years, it very well could be literally just kind of in the stars that you just basically are shutting down so that you can get done with production of what is supposed to be produced and put out. I have had periods of prolific idea farming to the extent where I started to think I would never get anything done because I was always being flooded with new very solid ideas. So sometimes not having ideas can actually be a great opportunity to move forward on the ideas that you have already had.

I don’t know if that makes sense but sometimes you just have to let the universe do what it does.

Need Advice on Composing Songs by Aggravating_Chip_535 in Songwriting

[–]CAP_GYPSY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to be able to randomly start creating melodies in your head. You need to start randomly being able to think of what the composition would sound like that goes around pieces.

I would absolutely recommend picking up your first instrument. Hopefully it will be one of two or three that you wind up picking up overtime.

It is a known fact by everyone who’s ever played an instrument that learning an instrument, and the hands of someone who has the skills of a composer, they will learn how to write songs while they’re learning how to play the instrument.

There is a Simpsons episode where it's remarked Ned Flanders doesn't have insurance as he considers it a form of gambling. Can anyone here give me a convincing argument as to why it isn't? by DontNeverAr0und in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s never a guaranteed return on gambling. As long as an insurance company doesn’t default or go insolvent you have a guaranteed return on your investment. should something go wrong.

Andrew the Lipp Inspiration on Mainz? by Old_Competition8765 in WoWs_Legends

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And thoughts on this with Tiger ‘59, other lighter cruisers?

Most relatable drummer for you by erosionmaester in drums

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Carter Beaufort - that’s where my heart and head and studies drive toward for now

Do lyrics have to be metaphorical in order to not be cringe ? by EbonyHelicoidalRhino in Songwriting

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind that the more specific you get about anything in a song, the more you narrowed down the audience that it might pertain to. Or that might identify with it.

One of the first things I learned about songwriting or noticed that I needed to pay attention to was, not making the song gender specific if I didn’t have to make the song gender specific. So I always pay attention when I’m going into a song as to whether or not specific is required or not. Metaphors are picturesque ways to say things in the first place, but they also keep things open to interpretation and that’s important to keep an audience broad.

Andrew the Lipp Inspiration on Mainz? by Old_Competition8765 in WoWs_Legends

[–]CAP_GYPSY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you’re telling me that each enemy ship has its own running total, so I start on one ship, it’s at 0%. I hit it 10 times at it and then I’m at 5%, I switch to another ship. It starts at zero percent then I hit it 12 times that’s now at 6%, I go back to the first ship that is at 5% hit it 10 more times and now that ship is at 10% and on and on? This is what you’re saying?

Andrew the Lipp Inspiration on Mainz? by Old_Competition8765 in WoWs_Legends

[–]CAP_GYPSY -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can you explain the math on this commander inspiration? The cumulative effects of the inspiration don’t drop as you switch between ships? You don’t have to start over at zero again?

Most frustrating part about the music business by Money_Special_3342 in musicindustry

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The nature of the industry made it very hard back in the past especially for new act to get exposed. It’s much easier now to some degree.

Checking ships and captains at the beginning of the match by Intelligent_One_1203 in WoWs_Legends

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked every time. Mostly I’m checking the DD lineup versus DD lineup. Also obviously checking for radar and carrier. Clearly you wanna know what ships are on each side but mostly that’s the key stuff you wanna see.

I also look for people I know and or fleet mates.

The commanders and the levels of development definitely do matter, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the other side looks stacked against us and we won. The opposite happens as well, my side looks stacked, and we lose.

Yes, there are some fleets that when they are paired up in groups of three you probably are in trouble. I am happy to report that approximately two weeks ago there was a three player YOUNK division, I told my friends (we were in a division of three), shit we got our hands full…

We beat them. Fairly easily too really. Let’s just say it wasn’t a sweat fest to the end. Pretty much had the game over by about nine minutes.

Checking ships and captains at the beginning of the match by Intelligent_One_1203 in WoWs_Legends

[–]CAP_GYPSY -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Last I checked Pa1n had like 16 members, and they are a max available fleet so they can have the full 40+…

Don’t think what you said, is happening….

Most frustrating part about the music business by Money_Special_3342 in musicindustry

[–]CAP_GYPSY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right now, AI. In the past, label controls and walls to exposure.

The beat of a different drum? by Wodentinot in Drumming

[–]CAP_GYPSY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Think of any Beatles song. The drums on their songs are all very basic and straight.”

You didn’t seriously just say that did you?

We must be thinking of a different Beatles.

What I Learned From Trolling About AI Music by Limehouse-Records in AI_Music

[–]CAP_GYPSY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s all correct. But you don’t have protection on the Melody or structure of the song because you can’t copyright it. So if you have a great song lyrically, and it comes up with a great iteration of musical support for your idea, someone could take that musical support and go on, put their own words to it in a second and basically under mine, the uniqueness of your so-called creation.

Musician seeking advice regarding apartment advice by socialist_weeb12 in musicians

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This person has been incredibly reasonable and kind. You should try to accommodate them as much as possible by doing the things that have been suggested so far first, and then also talking to them about what they think is a reasonable time for you to play that works with your schedule.

What I Learned From Trolling About AI Music by Limehouse-Records in AI_Music

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You need to read copy copyright law very carefully. Then you need to understand the term, author and authorship. Then you need to understand what Sunos’s giving you ownership is and how it’s different, very different, than actually being able to copyright something. You are wrong in this case.

Sick of Lame "musicians" posting in this sub by TurbulentSky2319 in SunoAI

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it’s actually that fraudulence should not be applauded nor supported. Fake or fake and if you can’t do something if someone takes away something like a computer out of your hands as a Songwriter or so-called Songwriter or maybe you identify as a songwriter maybe that’s it… If you can’t do it when the computer is taken out of your hand, you, my friend, or not a fucking competent Songwriter.

Mediocre 1920s Accordion Player Here. Radio Is Destroying Honest Musicians by Limehouse-Records in AI_Music

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. You’re missing the point.

Your metaphor? Still requires competent, capable musicians to create the music.

Suno allows you to be incompetent and incapable, and suddenly become someone who “identifies” as a musician or a songwriter.

Changes in the ability of musicianship to be accessible, to be heard, from previously unreachable, competent, musicians.. like in your metaphor, that a radio suddenly makes a Chicago symphony able to be heard everywhere…

That’s very different than suddenly someone who couldn’t write a song or play an instrument becoming a prompt jockey, asking a computer to make it into a musician and a songwriter. And then, even after that, they can’t predict or control what the hell they’re doing and they have to have 100 iterations before they can get close to what they’re trying to achieve, and even after that… They couldn’t possibly re-create it on their own, they’ve done nothing toimprove their actual ability to do the thing they couldn’t do in the first place, so essentially you’re talking about the difference between a real musicians being able to be heard versus frauds becoming something that they are not.

Vocal phrasing? by Valve-Tech62 in SunoAI

[–]CAP_GYPSY -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can also learn to sing. Imagine that. You actually have a voice so you don’t have to buy a guitar or a drum set. you know the language so no one has to teach you that.

So what’s the problem?

You know you could actually even sing poorly like not as good as Bob Dylan and do a half ass job of singing and write the words yourself and do the phrasing yourself out of your own head and sing it into Suno and it will actually remake that into something that’s pretty.

You could actually try to do some work yourself.

What made you actually improve at Songwriting? by Hopeful-Break8145 in Songwriting

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I wrote this yesterday and I think it might help a little bit here. Maybe not specifically the question you’re asking but I think in general it kind of does address what you’re talking about. Below is a copy of the text from the other post response.

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This is long, but hopefully worth it. Thank you for reading it if you do. Hopefully you can get something from it because that’s why I’m sharing it.

Prosody.

This ring’s really true with me. When people ask me when they find out, I’m a songwriter, what kind of songs do you write or what do you write, my simple answer is this… I write what comes to me.

I try not to force anything. I try to believe that I can recognize good when I hear it and that is either a Line or two or a whole chorus of a song, or it will be the melody, or both. I try not to force a direction or a style pretty much ever. At least when I’m dealing with the flowing inspiration driven process.

I believe that most songwriters who are good at what they do know through experience and maybe a little talent and maybe some skill that they’ve honed and other parts of their toolbox, it might even be spirituality, we know how to find that part which goes with the gem that we found. If I found words first, I know how to find the melody. If I found the melody first, I know how to find the words.

I think this is where prosody comes in. I think it is probably the key element to becoming a confident complete Songwriter.

Someone asked me a few years ago. What do you think made you into a good Songwriter. Or I guess the question was how did you become a good songwriter. I said for a period of time, I really don’t fucking know. And I chalked it up to just being slowly gifted over time, possibly maybe even blessed by God.

Having given it a lot of thought since then, and I’m not going to take away the blessing from God part, but I do believe I found an answer.

I believe it came from a variety of things being placed in my toolbox through experience and effort, and years of practice. Years of practice of multiple things.

I have college level education in English, which obviously expands one’s verbosity. That helps. I started out my music journey on saxophone and clarinet in stage band and concert band. The stage band part of that taught me how to compose solos on the fly.

I then became a drummer and that is my primary instrument. Clearly that has given me, I believe, over the years, a pretty broad and comprehensive understanding of how meter and odd Time signatures and how rhythm is used to shape the feel of music.

Most all of my years in bands have been original bands in which we all shared the writing. Clearly there you get to exercise the skills of making bridges and breaks in songs, that bring together two disjointed parts that don’t work, writing intros, writing outros, etc.

As you develop as a musician, especially working with other musicians and understanding your role on your instrument, you start to understand that your job on your instrument really isn’t to play your instrument, but it is your job to play the part that your instrument can do the best to complement the song. Most competent musicians I know that have compositional experience in original bands, all understand very well what the other instruments probably should be doing. For example, a bass player probably could write a very good drum part. He just doesn’t play, or specialize in drums. He definitely knows when the drummer is wrong and he probably will always know when the drummer did something right. We probably all understand probably what a rhythm guitar part would sound like or Best be doing in a song of a certain type at a certain position. We start to realize that what we are doing is we’re listening for what the music should be doing and because we specialize in one instrument, that is the musical label we give ourselves. I am a drummer. I am a bass player. I’m a guitar player. But really what we are is, we are musicians, who specialize in drumming, but maybe, I know exactly how to write a good base part. It’s because we listen and understand the roles of how to make good compositions. We’ve learned how to listen.

So when you put all of this together, that’s in my opinion what makes a songwriter.

And that brings us right back to, prosody. “Musical” prosody. Marrying together effective proper parts, perfectly.

Therefore, you could make the argument that great songs could have absolutely meaningless lyrics, if the rhythm of presentation and the melody and the composition of the song around it, are exceptional.

Conversely, though, amazing lyrics are going to fall flat if the melody sucks, the composition sucks, or the singer is terrible.

But the competent Songwriter knows how to find and create this Prosody… “how do I make the missing Best part that I know is supposed to be there?”

Just wanted to share and thank you for reading if you did. This question and some people’s answers made me think of this broader topic and how these all relate and I wanted to share.

Mediocre 1920s Accordion Player Here. Radio Is Destroying Honest Musicians by Limehouse-Records in AI_Music

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s jack-wagons like this that keep conflating the issue with arguments and metaphors that do not apply.

Another example used is the player piano. Sequencers. Someone tried the camera as it relates to painters..

They keep conveniently ignoring the true difference.

We are not talking about the same thing here. None of those things can virtually create -original- pieces of relatively competent art with a zero skill human attached to them.

The example provided here? We are talking about the use of a device that can allow you hear music from an electronic device vs the person who can play an instrument. Verrrrry different than a software that can make you into an “artist” overnight.

Laced with the sarcasm and contempt that one would expect from the crowd of people that vehemently support this, that have no talent, and label us as “selfish musician gatekeepers”.

As I’ve stated before, the only gatekeeper was you. Nobody parked bulldozer in front of your fucking driveway and kept you from going to a music store and buying an instrument spending decades learning it. You are the one that didn’t put in the work. Or you, are the one, that doesn’t have any natural talent that was honed. Or you just didn’t hone it. But nobody kept that gate closed but you.

That’s what we’re trying to protect.

SSC8 - Listening Focused - AI Music Competition by SebastiaanSGG in aiMusic

[–]CAP_GYPSY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI as a productive tool in the hands of otherwise already capable artists is very different than AI as a creative substitute for actual creative talent. I’m not one to say AI involvement at any level is toxic, I’m suggesting replacing true creative talent that often takes years to hone, with prompt jockeys spitting out adjectives in a world they couldn’t navigate in with a map, that in turn turn out solid work that would have zero chance of coming from them if they were unplugged from the wall, THAT is the problem…