I have to hand it to Microsoft… if this is a supposed to be a serious tool (the promo seems to sell it as such) then they should just throw in the towel now before they tarnish their image anymore. The idea behind SongSmith is that you sing the melody and it will auto-generate the backing music… I’m sure you can already see where this is going. Many people have run the lyric tracks from popular songs through it with funny results. I’ll let you find the actual SongSmith demo video on YouTube yourself… I’m posting my favorite SongSmith results below.
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I found my Charlie Hunter CD recently and I’ve been enjoying listening to him again. He’s an amazing musician apart from the fact that he plays the bass and guitar simultaneously. YouTube didn’t exist when I first got into him, and it’s nice now to be able to watch him play. Enjoy!
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If this video ever gets deleted from YouTube, you can download it HERE.
I finally found the full Marcus Miller concert that includes the song “Blast” which I linked to earlier. Unfortunately, the video has been removed from YouTube. Here it is from FabChannel.
UPDATE 3-17-2009: FabChannel is no longer around Click HERE to download a clip from another concert (*.mp4 file playable in QuickTime).
I’ve been meaning to post this video for awhile (been busy). Stanley Clarke is one of the most amazing bass players I’ve seen. He really explores the instrument and is not afraid to push it to new sounds. This upright bass solo is just awesome!
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Okay, I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile. These guys are amazing… they play both guitar parts, the bass part, and percussion all using only 2 acoustic guitars. Thanks for the link Ray!
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Remember comedian Jim Breuer? He did AC\DC singing the “Hokey Pokey”. Well, here is is again impersonating Metallica singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It”… with the band members in the audience.
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I have to hand it to Microsoft… if this is a supposed to be a serious tool (the promo seems to sell it as such) then they should just throw in the towel now before they tarnish their image anymore. The idea behind SongSmith is that you sing the melody and it will auto-generate the backing music… I’m sure you can already see where this is going. Many people have run the lyric tracks from popular songs through it with funny results. I’ll let you find the actual SongSmith demo video on YouTube yourself… I’m posting my favorite SongSmith results below.
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