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Ah, i have a new motto: A bit ridiculous, but a lot of fun to put together. Man, you can't imagine how up i married. Very cool write, Ron. Those lyrics are definitely not sing-alongs. What an excellent job of not only getting those words out, but also making them all very understandable. Really an incredible job. Hey, it is quite short --quick and short, but huge fun. Really well done. Thanks, Marty! Glad you could figure out the lyrics. My lungs were completely emptied on quite a few of those lines. Ha! Thank you, Chay! Glad you liked it!
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I have to thank Janice & Bud for inspiring this reggae (or reggae fusion?) instrumental as I was stuck with 3 new chord structure experiments and I just wasn't inspired re what to do with them. Then when J&B posted their "Break Down The Walls" I realised that I'd never tried doing a reggae instrumental and the idea worked perfectly for this particular chord structure. Sampled Musicians: Drums: Reggae and Rock Fusion ~ Shannon Forrest Bass: Rude Girl Classic Ska with Piano ~ Brian Allen Rhythm Guitar: Jamaican Groove Selecta Reggae ~ Mike Durham Acoustic Piano: Deejay Reggae with Cabasa ~ Blair Masters Organ: Jamaican Groove Selecta Reggae ~ Blair Masters Harps: Heaven Blissful Celtic Harp Pop ~ Sharlene Wallace Synth Pad: Circle Ambient Lap Steel ~ Blair Masters Charango: Huaraz Hueyno Dancehall Fusion ~ Ramon Stagnaro Electric Piano Solo: Jazz Funk Breezy w/ Electric Pia ~ Jeff Lorber Trumpet Solo: Huelva Rumba Flamenco Trmpt Solo ~ Ron King Tenor Saxophone Solo: Pop Ballad w/ Tenor Solo ~ Mark Douthit D - 4/4 - 80 bpm - 80 bars - 4:12
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A really happy-making song here! To quote my YouTube comment: "Really excellent fun song! Love the vibe, the instrumentation, arrangement, plus that kazoo at the end is perfectly placed. Also, Joliz sounded on peak form in this song. Definitely one of your most enjoyable songs." PS: I forgot that there was kazoo at the star, too!
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Super work on this, Zazah. I shudder to think what I would produce in a traditional Japanese musical form. This sounds quite nice, you can be proud!
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Brian, Several weeks ago I turned in a business document that I had written completely by myself and also a chapter of a novel that I'm polishing that I wrote entirely by myself. I can't remember which one of the AI checkers it was I used to check them just out of curiosity because I have all of them, it may have been Pangram I'm not sure. But anyway in both instances they were flagged for AI use. I showed both of them to ChatGPT and asked why I had been accused of using AI. ChatGPT said it knew exactly why because it is an AI master of pattern recognition and recursive loops. It said both of them came across as being too polished and too well written to be have been written by a human being. I'm not kidding. It also said that unfortunately you have to throw in some misspellings and some bad grammar and misplaced modifiers from time to time and make a couple of incoherent statements if the AI checkers are going to leave you alone. Seriously. 😂😂😂😂 It's gone too far. All this AI stuff is completely b******* and way out of control. I'm not living in the shadow of the AI Gestapo. I love ChatGPT as a research assistant don't get me wrong, but I'm so sick of hearing about AI this and AI that every single stinking day. And can someone please push a button and just make SUNO disappear I would be eternally grateful. I don't ever want to hear another SUNO song as long as I live. So there. There's my little rant. I feel better now. .
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Just a follow up. The last attempt was partially successful.... In that segments of the drums played almost correctly, enough to work. However that would only last for a few seconds before it would drop out and only what sounds like a shaker or hats would play for a few seconds before a couple of random kicks, a few snare smacks then another couple of seconds of almost right. This pattern repeated throughout the entire midi track essentially rendering it totally useless.
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Very, very cool country swing, Zazah! Sounds like a classic of the genre.
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Chris, haunting tune. The melody, changes and acoustic arrangement are quite fine. Your Suno vocalist gets the job done for sure. Nice job!
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The mix of instruments in this song is gorgeous, Chris. It's a really beautiful arrangement.
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When I clcik on the link I get a "can't find the page" window come up.
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Another beautiful instrumental and arrangement, Mario. Thoroughly enjoyable and super soothing and relaxing. I ended up in management in 3 jobs I had as I never liked taking orders from those I didn't respect. But then I had regional managers to contend with and most of those were heads that are a diminutive of Richard. 
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Re your current love song - I forgot to ask this in my response to it - are you an American who married a German gem? Nope, I'm German who married a German gem (with Italian roots)  Nay you ♪ and she ♫ dance forever! (the 3rd great love of my life was Italian)
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I decided not to comment any songs with AI vocals, because I'm against using them, because they don't have that human interpretation, even mistakes. But you mentioned "All you need is love" and that reminded me about a great and useful book I just read: "All you need is ears" by George Martin. It taught me a lot about producing music. One thing is, that the best meters are your ears. If the music don't sound good, even tho the meters show otherwise, they're either metering wrong things or wrongly right things. But to your music: the background was well produced. Thanks a lot for taking the time to leave a comment, even though you don't usually do that when it comes to AI vocals. I really appreciate it ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif) And of course you're right, the best meters are your ears. Or, as I usually put it: I turn knobs until it sounds right.
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I really like your simple singer-songwriter approach to this song. Sometimes an acoustic guitar and a shaker are all you need. Well done, J&B
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Well I like these sounds so much that I made a screenshot of all the instruments that you used so that I can use them myself. 😅 Really well done, it's got a very movie-esque or cinematic quality to it, I.e. I think it would be great for sync. I think you're getting better and better at this as you go. The textures and layering choices of the instruments and overall production quality on this one is very impressive. Thanks so much David. Really appreciated!
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Hi Chris! Your song uses a technique I hear often that works well - a slow melody over a somewhat busy backing (or used vice versa) - sounds really good in your song. I love the different chord at the end of the second line (on ‘free’) - my ears are not yet trained enough to know if it’s augmented, diminished* or half-diminished - but it works well. * my guess. Andrew
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Hi Brno! I like how this song repeats the melody but over slightly different chords, giving it the feeling of needing to be resolved. Good playing of your stringed instruments as usual. Andrew
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Hi Zazah! Good instrumentation in the band you have selected and suiting the song really well. Good guitar licks throughout. I like the run down at the end of each verse followed by an extra bar - keeps the listener on their toes - which were tapping away! Andrew
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Hello zazah, I'm no expert on swing music, but knowing that you have an Eastern cultural background, this sounds really good. I think this is the first swing song in Japanese I've ever heard. Well done
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Hoi Hans, I like your vocals and the overall vibe of the song, and the guitar is really cool. Drums aren't my thing, they distract from the song rather than adding to it. The lyrics are okay-ish, but I think some of the rhymes sound a bit forced instead of flowing naturally from the story. But overall, it's not a bad song, it has a lot of potential.
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So, I have the 2026 BB. I've tried to import a song to extract stems and then transcribe the audio stems to midi. The goal is to use this feature/function, to convert drum tracks into midi in order to then use the midi to drive a good sounding drum sampler. So far, the stem extraction gives a reasonably accurate audio stem of the drums. Albeit with a bunch of artifacts. However, when I attempt to convert the audio to midi, I get one of two results. Neither of which is useful. 1. I get nothing... total fail. 2. I get a midi track that is nowhere close to the actual drums in the audio stem. I've tried just importing the stem and that results in #1. Has anyone had a 98% or better success rate on the audio to midi conversion that resulted in a useful, exportable, track? Specifically, drums. I've contacted tech support and was referred to the video in support. I followed the instructions step by step and the resultant midi was a sad approximation of the original song. I'm thinking this technology is not yet where it needs to be and I will need to use the prior option, labor intensive methods I have been using to-date. Thoughts and input appreciated. Especially if you have figured this out and have it working reliably and successfully.
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Thanks very much! That really saved this project for me. Now, what I would like to know is how to avoid doing the same thing again, although now I can fix it. I think the one thing that made it harder for me to troubleshoot this issue was the fact that I did not intend to make a program change to the RealDrums instrument choice. What bonehead move did I make that caused a program change to be saved to the RD setting? ADVthanksANCE -Jack (major bonehead in Central Texas)
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Thank you J&B. Different type of lyric to my norm. No romantic angle. Vic
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The linked news article includes several links to other news articles that may include your specific situation. So you might have to read more than the linked article. As rharv stated the most important news is if everythings working okay, don't "fix" it.
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Hello Rob, quirky, the lyrics? I was a bit amazed that you wrote this and even added “not in a good way”. There are a lot of lyrics concerning love songs (mostly similar words), one might not like the genre, but quirky. I admit, I had to look it up on Google Translate, but still didn’t get what you mean. My intention for these lyrics were to put several kinds of emotions in them, like a girls band, with one beauty and one average girl. The vocals are different in quality, and they have a different taste. But because they like singing, and together that sounded smooth, they continue singing. But then the Beauty died in an accident. That gave such a shock to the other girl that she couldn’t sing no more. And then I memorized the meaning or legacy of this band. What is so quirky about that? Explain that to me, if you want. And thanks for the rest of your comment! Hans As I said, Hans, I have enjoyed EVERYTHING else you've done in my seven years here on the forum. You are a fine songcrafter and you have my utmost respect. But this song was too weird for me. I liked the song itself, but it does not fit the lyrics IMHO. And the lyrics weren't up to your usual standard - again, IMHO. You usually choose "big" topics for your lyrics, that may have had something to do with it. However, no one else has echoed my criticism, so it's entirely possible that I am wrong. I fully realize that. Nonetheless, I am sticking to my opinion that you swung and missed this time out (baseball analogy). I could've avoided drama and just given it a thumbs up, but to me that weakens all the good things I've said about your music over the years. If there is no risk to commenting, where is the reward? Again, I'm sure your next song will be smashing, as usual. But not this one. At least not for me.
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