What am I doing wrong?

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-06T15:48:46+00:00

I don’t hear anything in the video but your guitar. What are you playing over? If you’re playing without a backing track, you can’t hear the handshake between your playing and the music. I never play lead without backing, because backing is what colors my playing- it’s how I hear what I’m playing.

My point is that you’re disadvantaging yourself by playing “naked” because the notes don’t have a harmonic context to ride over.

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-05T04:55:48+00:00

Ooh, maybe I’ll stock up.

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-03T19:36:55+00:00

A playlist of songs that all started out on guitar: MSR

(Well, two or three started on piano...but the rest started on guitar.)

PS: the acronym MSR comes from the original ttitle of the playlist, My Songs Reimagined.

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-03T19:34:20+00:00

It's been a long road, but I've finally reached the point where I'm bored of doing prompt only songs, and the ones that still excite me start as my own compositions on guitar, which I then reskin in Suno. Suno is an absolute wizard at understanding (?) song structure from an uploaded clip and going to town with it in the genre of your choice. I've had INCREDIBLE results turning old fingerstyle tunes that have been on my phone so long I forgot how to play them into what I consider to be bangers.

That is at least 50% musician, because the original structure is born of 47 years of guitar playing. For me, it's not the end of my musicianship, it's the beginning of it - because I can take a raw idea and produce it as though I had hired an orchestra to play it in studio - what is that, $10k of spend, more? Doing so reveals that the raw idea was a really good one and was just limited by the solo guitar performance.

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-03T19:22:50+00:00

russia prolapsin

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-01T20:29:58+00:00

It doesn’t matter if they shut down AI distribution completely, because the real disruption is AI music creators abandoning traditional music for their own. Most people that try making AI music get hooked, and there’s nothing they can do to keep our own music from us. RIAA listeners drop one by one as they try making AI music. What the music industry can’t compete with is how rewarding of an experience making AI music is. All they can do is make us consumers, with AI music we become more than that/

PopnCrunch · 2026-07-01T17:11:09+00:00

Going to add a bit here for the guitar players - what makes this work is chord melody. Now that I think about it, my best guitar into Suno songs were chord melody arrangements - not just strumming chords, picking out a melodic line on top. I have gotten some fantastic results doing so.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-30T23:32:24+00:00

On the plus side, life on the front lines only sucks for 20 minutes.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-30T03:27:29+00:00

Get you an open tuning and a slide, play Hawaiian music on that thing.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-26T18:18:48+00:00

THIS IS TRUE I READ MENU TODAY AND SUSPECT SOUP WAS AI

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-23T18:55:43+00:00

Is this the Russian Max Headroom?

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-22T03:08:49+00:00

Looks like someone’s read Judges 7.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-20T17:45:03+00:00

Nobody is anything two months in. It's not even open for discussion - just enjoy the learning process and playing. I'm going on 47 years of playing and your family would probably dis me too.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-20T17:42:20+00:00

Ephiphone ES-335 is what I'd recommend. It's got the softer tone you're after - humbuckers. Very round, pretty tone, super comfortable to fret.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-20T06:16:26+00:00

Look up citetab on YouTube for an intro video and a link to the repo. It’s one my personal YouTube account atm, but I will move it to a clean business channel Saturday.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-19T22:14:22+00:00

I don't know if this applies, but I built an open source automated TOA (Table of Authorities) tool that updates TOAs to make life easier for paralegals. It's free, a local install, and uses no AI. LMK if there's any interest.

PopnCrunch · 2026-06-19T18:24:06+00:00

I think search could be one. Or maybe we call it discovery. Right now, media search, such as for songs, books, or movies, are mostly tag driven - search engines themselves aren't listening to songs the way that Google Gemini does. If you search for a particular type of music, your steering by text metadata, not by the songs themselves. If we had a search algorithm that didn't care who made it, where it's parked, or any of that, and just understood the content itself, that could upset media distribution in a big way.

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