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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-13 20:14 ID:OjKR8fPr )
- Using AI tools, you can isolate the different elements of a song (drums, strings, vocals, keys). From what I've seen it's not 100% perfect yet, but it's still extremely impressive. \n\n Fun and useful. You can learn how to cover a song more effectively this way. And it's possible to learn a lot about music composition from this too (how were the drums done? how does the bassline sound and how does it compare with the melody). Usually it's hard to pick out individual sounds clearly when they are played together in a band. Plus it's just interesting. \n\n First song I did, I isolated the vocals and realized that the singing voice is more "human" and imperfect than I thought (not in a bad way). Combined with other instruments, the voice sounded too perfect. \n\n I'm using this site for it: https://fadr.com/stems
- More info: https://blog.soundtrap.com/stem-splitting/ \n\n
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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-13 20:23 ID:OjKR8fPr )
- Also it will tell you the song's key, BPM, chords. It can even generate a MIDI version of the song for you with separate files for drums, guitar, etc... \n\n Still, I don't really want to utilize this resource for things that I could do myself. If I would use AI for those things, making music loses a lot of its purpose. Part of music is developing your ear and musical knowledge. \n\n
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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-14 13:06 ID:kmyUGnKg )
- The first time I came across this type of thing was when I joined a band a couple of years ago, and the singer used it to help me learn the bassline for one of his own songs. I normally work it out by ear but he did it anyway and I only had a couple of days to learn the song, so it was quite helpful, especially with a couple of fills that were deep amongst other instruments \n\n
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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-16 21:42 ID:OjKR8fPr )
- >>3
- Just curious, do you think utilizing this kind of thing regularly would be "cheating"? Would someone who relied on this tool be unable to play by ear using the normal method?
- Personally I lean towards considering it a "cheat", like I said in >>2. But I can see it also being considered just a useful tool that there's no reason not to take advantage of (like using a calculator instead of doing math by hand). \n\n
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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-22 15:21 ID:kmyUGnKg )
- >>4 Hmmm well... cheating in what sense? I guess I don't really think about art and music in a way that there's such a thing as “cheating”. In this example I was only using it to quickly learn an existing part, and wanted to make sure it was close to what was on the record, but I still had to practise it and then play it live on tour. And then I still changed some parts to put my own style on it. But it's still better for your own self-improvement to try and work things out by ear, so I guess you're only cheating yourself out of your own musical development a bit, like you said. \n\n
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- ♪ ☆ Anonymous Popstar ☆ ♪ (2025-11-23 17:48 ID:OjKR8fPr )
- >>5 \n\n > >I still had to practise it and then play it live on tour.That makes sense. There aren't really any shortcuts when it comes to actually playing, and it's not possible to cheat. I didn't think of it that way. \n\n > >But it's still better for your own self-improvement to try and work things out by ear, so I guess you're only cheating yourself out of your own musical development a bitThis is what I meant, but what I was trying to say wasn't so clear and crystalized, even in my own mind. \n\n
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