A lot of musicians will be infuriated by this ‘world’s first generative AI guitar’, but I think its automatic tabulation and learning features sound genuinely smart — but only if the AI’s ethical

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(Image credit: TemPolor) TemPolor Melo-D guitar promises to create entire songs from singing or playing a melody, using AI Auto-generated backing tracks and guitar tabulation, too $349 early bird on Kickstarter Ever wished you could get AI to help you play guitar and compose songs? Melo-D promises to do justContinue Reading

“Paul Simon called Stax and said, ‘Who are those Jamaican musicians?’ They told him, ‘Those are some white boys from Alabama!’” David Hood on being starstruck by Aretha Franklin, what Otis Redding taught him, and tales from golden age of Muscl

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The “Muscle Shoals sound,” a drum-and-bass-heavy blend of soul, pop, and rock, defined the Golden Age of Southern R&B. As the creators of that sound, studio strongmen David Hood, drummer Roger Hawkins, and the rest of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (nicknamed the Swampers) provided the backbone for a successionContinue Reading