Thank you for responding Doctor Gannon.

Is what I am looking for shuffle or is it swing? Or is it shwing? Or swuffle? Ask 21 people what that groove is called and you get a vote of 11-10.

Brent did indeed play on that track, 30 years ago, but his parts don't make it a style. Roger Murrah and Pat Terry made it in a specific style. Trust me, Dr. Gannon, I spent 90 minutes sampling styles and nothing was even close. Though the style picker gave me suggestions, none of them were within 5 miles (8 kilometers for you) of correct. When the search algorithm actually lists that song by that artist, and none of the styles are even close, why bother?

Now THIS, I just had to do. You may have to zoom.



226 styles come back under the name and artist. The first 7 are Celtic?? Please tell me the connection that Ol' Tanya, from Seminole Texas, 25 miles from the New Mexico border, has to Celtic music. By the time I took out the styles that were natively far too fast or natively far too slow (to where they would sound horrible done at the 148 or so the song in question is, and the styles (like Celtic) that have no connection, I ended up with about 40, and not one of them worked. At all. There shows to be 7,175 styles. Many of them are _STYLENAMEv1, v2 and v3, close to the same thing with some small tweak.

Some of those styles that come up in searches are actually comical. Can that search algorithm be tightened up some so looking for a swing or a shuffle doesn't give us a surf beat? And who names those styles? I keep waiting to see names like "One bad apple" or "Gum on my tennis shoe". The last version showed 5 style picker enhancements, but no mention of new styles.

My original post included this.

"I just put in "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" and told it to find a style. The first one in the list was "Hang Ten Vintage Surf Rock". Really?" Surf rock? From Bert Bacharach?

The web site you linked to, well, I'll just say that I am not paying 20 bucks to listen to a guitar lick that I, with the ear I have, was able to play after hearing it once. To be fair, there honestly isn't much I'd pay 20 bucks for.

I have made some assumptions about the lack of enlargement of the style and track samples options that were all largely financial. I am not going to ask you anything about that in public view but I would SO value a brief private conversation about it. (I keep coming back to) Brent Mason, and his 288 samples, is now old news. Tom Bukovac, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley... there are some strong country players out there who would provide a much welcomed breath of fresh air if they would provide samples that we can turn into solos, though none of them would do it for $50 and a case of beer. (Well, Tom might!) I can only speak for me, and I can imagine that many would agree but never say this out loud for the same reason they wouldn't try to get behind the curtain to try and see the wizard (Because NOBODY gets to see the wizard), I but have heard just about all I want from that list of guitar players dominated by about 6-8 names.