There really isn't anything new here. When I was teaching guitar I'd tell the students after you learn the basic techniques I will divided the lesson in half, half for continuing out of the book and half for having fun. If ignoring the book learning then the fun stuff will stop. My lessons were not a strictly go from book 1 to book 2 etc. Students learned more advanced techniques more easily when playing songs that they want to play. Learning fun stuff started early in the lessons to get the student motivated. Note that all of the fun stuff was in notation that was modified to the students skill level. I have had great success with this method and so did the other guitar teacher I was sharing students when we both worked at a music store together. YMMV
it sometimes irks me that some users ask for help and are answered by experienced users only for the OP not to be heard from again. its difficult to help people without being given cogent info on their settings and set ups. imho its not nice to treat people like this who donate their free time to help. at least a thankyou would be nice sometimes...sigh. om
whats really needed imho is to have one app that splits into 6 parts AND at the same time creates new tracks that are assessed that might be better than one or more splits useing AI. thus the user could have 'options' to improve the split tracks.
Audio Track makes two points that should be considered a) if links are provided they ought to be tested and where they are reported as being regionally sensitive that ought to be accepted at face value and b) one ought not expect a reader to use a search engine, (I for one don't use Goggle nor use the company name as a verb), to supply information missing for the O.P. As to the method? It's just another coding system, ( yes I did look it up using Duck Duck Go), not unlike tabs.
Resuming ... Problem: loading existing/old songs with user audio tracks does not behave stable. In general all songs have been edited with user audio tracks adjusted bars to match the songs tempo. In some cases works just fine and opens as in 2025. In other cases the audio is loaded directly at bar -1, i.e. no delay or sync to the rest of the song. In some cases BIAB has saved the song and chopped of e.g 2 bars in the beginning which explains why it would start directly at bar -1, i.e. normally the audio would be silent from -1 and start sound at bar 1 to be in sync with the song. The chopping could even be repeated with additionally saves, thus destructive removing the audio and you could end up with an empty audio track = 0 bytes. In these cases the saving was done automatically BIAB, i.e. not by me. Possibly also related this is when continuously looping a song with an audio track, it gets offset by some two bars for every new loop ... I has kept me from actually using BIAB for some time as it's destructive and not so tempting to have to edit all songs to be saved in 2026 (if even that would help...) Strangely I have not seen any other user reporting a similar problem.
A beautiful song Herb, one to be proud of. My only gripe is that too much reverb placed the vocals behind the band (imo). I must admit that I preferred and very much enjoyed your older video version. You have an excellent voice of which would make Willie himself proud. Seems like you must have a treasure trove of potential hits. Keep 'em coming. cheers Izzy
Sure, we have Google, but the link you attached was to YouTube. I was responding to the status of the YouTube link in your post.
I understand and am seeking opinions on the Payam Method. My search engine delivered many hits. And maybe we should remove WWW from our lexicon and replace with PWWW? Partial World Wide Web
Very sad indeed. Sonny's name appeared time and time again in the Jazz fake Books. What an amazing contributor to music. St Thomas, what a masterpiece!
It's cool but the AI vocal seems to have overdone the "humanizing" as there's way to much breath, sibilants stuff, clipping etc. for my liking. Nifty backing and a good result with the mix. Good ears man.
Thank you so much for listening and for your always valuable feedback, Ray. I really appreciate it The imperfections are not the AI's fault, I actually requested the vocals to be that way and didn't remove most of the imperfections. That's a conscious decision, because I don't like the overly polished vocals you usually hear on the radio. Of course, that's just my personal preference, and I know a lot of people who would agree with you.
Hi BD The presentation and production of this song is nothing short of an explosive listening experience. My mind is still reeling (in a really good way) from the impact. Throughout, I kept thinking that this must be what "Pop-Opera meets Rock-Ballad meets a very inventive and musically fearless arranger and producer" sounds like. I was spellbound. It was a thoroughly thrilling musical roller-coaster ride. Absolutely brilliant and amazing. Standing ovation! --Noel
Thank you for this really wonderful comment, Noel. Makes my day
Hi Bob. Some of those lines do sound slightly awkward to me. "I was still lost but, now I didn't care", is my suggestion. It does place an extra syllable but, that can add a little extra dynamic and melody if it's phrased right. The mix sounds fine but maybe there's a small eq cut needed around the lower mids to clear up the mud but I'm not a sound engineer. Vic
Be careful, because in France Okay is a brand of paper towels. This might seem like a disguised advertisement, but we'll let it slide. Aside from this questionable humor, the song is catchy, and the singer is OK. Laurent
Man, you are on a roll lately, Vic! Another well written and performed song from you. Love the subject matter, great idea for a song, and like others here I am of the generation where radio was a huge deal. I have many fond memories of those days! Your vocal is perfect, loved the tin whistle also.
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The imperfections are not the AI's fault, I actually requested the vocals to be that way and didn't remove most of the imperfections. That's a conscious decision, because I don't like the overly polished vocals you usually hear on the radio. Of course, that's just my personal preference, and I know a lot of people who would agree with you.
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The presentation and production of this song is nothing short of an explosive listening experience. My mind is still reeling (in a really good way) from the impact. Throughout, I kept thinking that this must be what "Pop-Opera meets Rock-Ballad meets a very inventive and musically fearless arranger and producer" sounds like. I was spellbound. It was a thoroughly thrilling musical roller-coaster ride. Absolutely brilliant and amazing. Standing ovation! --Noel
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