Trying to make an album without much effort....... Seriously? I thought it was the effort going into it that made it good and unique. If it didn't take much effort, anyone could do it. No... you need to put some effort into this even with BIAB. The more effort you put in, the better it (hopefully) will be.


My advice: Don't use the melodist and then try to have it do several songs in the same style. To get a somewhat different result, you need to use a totally different style.

I used to use the melodist a lot when I was first getting started and noticed that there was a certain similarity in much of what I was doing. I started hearing the same licks and patterns in the "new stuff" that was in my older tunes.


The best way to work is to create your own stuff and not let the melodist do it for you.

My big nit with the melodist, aside from the somewhat apparently limited creativity it has, is that many times, the chords it was picking were just plain weird. I was having to go in and do massive editing anyway so why not just create something new from scratch? I don't think I ever had a single song that the melodist created go from start to finished unedited.

These are a few of the songs I "wrote" using the melodist, albeit with heavy heavy editing.

Walking in Springtime

A Memory of You

Sao Paulo Night

It is possible to get some totally different sounding stuff but you have to edit and add some live parts. Each of those songs above, and several more on my music page, started as ideas created by the melodist. I picked them from dozens of melodist attempts. Then I sat down, and edited the results to become a unique song. Each one has a different style as it's basis.

A note of interest and observation. I heard someone else post a song in the showcase a few years back that had the EXACT same melody line that I remember from one of my early melodist experiments. I mean exactly the same melody.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 02/21/17 03:24 AM.
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