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0:00 Introduction.
0:17 is pop music even worse today?
2:37 which Radiohead and Beatles tunes are undervalued?
3:17 what will AI music suggest for artists?
6:34 are you a fan of Elvis Presley and Justin Bieber?
7:09 how can I utilize maj7 chords and sus2 chords?
9:00 how to write a bridge for a pop song?
9:41 did the Beatles ever write in Phrygian?
10:15 how can I write music that is really unique?
11:39 why does the essential signature in some cases not match the key of the music?
13:14 flowkey.
13:55 who are the best producers?
15:27 advice on songwriting and structure.
17:05 Esus4 E G Em.
18:18 how important reads sheet music?
19:07 radiohead?
19:11 the very best tune of the last 60 years?
19:31 is arrangement important in songwriting?
20:49 how did you self-teach piano?
22:24 what makes a tune noise impressive?
23:13 what do you think about Paul McCartney & Wings?
23:57 is F/G going to C a plagal cadence?
25:21 can you evaluate Decks Dark and Steppin' Out?
26:19 would you evaluate Woman From Ipanema?
26:34 how were you as a kid?
27:04 new albums you would advise?
27:29 what your 3rd preferred artist?
27:44 can you be in a number of secrets at the same time?
29:10 songs that utilize the "Brown Eyed Lady" chord development?
30:16 who is your favourite music YouTuber?
30:24 what inspired you to begin your channel?
31:00 are you going to release initial music with your band?
31:31 is it no longer possible to be effective without social media?
32:15 Billy Joel or Elton John?
32:59 Csus2 Csus2( # 4)( omit5) Gmaj7/D Fmaj7/G.
34:07 exists a typical stepping-up chord development?
35:00 piano outrot.
I agree that AI music will become a tool.
I suspect it will often be used in pop music, BUT it won’t BE the pop music.
Especially with how tied to singers pop music is.
AI is far more complex than your description and, even now, it can create very, likable complex music.
‘Gruppen’ by Karlheinz Stockhausen is pretty unique, and it sets my teeth on edge just to think about it. Unique and listenable are overlapping categories, but not the same thing at all.
I think you blew it on the question about sheet music in different keys. There are plenty of charts that are different not just what you said. I’ve been told some publishers change keys to fit standard vocal ranges for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass.
The great music of the past feels more like music from the future and it feels like we are now in a period of mediocrity.
Thank you David for you answering my question. I probably should’ve phrased it differently when I asked it though.
“Is David Bennett still making good videos about music theory and related topics? Is David Bennett actually an AI?” Yes to the first. “Maybe” to the second.
That selection of naff hits from the past is still a pretty nice selection though, would def listen to them instead of most (not all) current hits.
First question: No, it’s not just different. I wish it were. That’s the biggest problem with much of it. Very few songs are noticeably different from earlier stuff. Some are engineered to have absolutely nothing original about them. One hit that gets played ad nauseam recently, on top of having exactly nothing original about it musically, even manages to steal each of its three lines of lyrics from a different past hit…
But, to be fair, past decades’ hit parades were also full of $***. Anybody remembers the duo “Modern Talking”, with its four major hits, each practically identical to the others?
I don’t think pop music is necessarily worse, I think given how easily music can be distributed via the internet maybe we get more exposure to the worse stuff – but it’s always been there. And you can’t say the highs are any less high either with the likes of the Weeknd on the scene!
For a superb arrangement, I suggest Jealous Guy by Roxy Music, covering John Lennon’s original.
Seems as though now, we hear a lot more renditions of popular pop/rock music via technology.
And many can get inundated with the technology and to make a living with music, the premium – top of the line is needed. Plus , it’s too expensive or you’ll need hire or pay someone. Doesn’t need to be that way but it is.
I once wrote a whole song made up entirely of maj7 chords. It’s definitely one of my favourite chord sounds.
The hybrid ai composition is the concept of the software Synfire by Cognitone. It’s a bit awkward sometimes but pretty neat.
Funny you put the F/G to C question straight after the one on Paul McCartney and Wings. That very sequence (well, maybe an equivalent in another key) is prominent in the Wings song “With a little luck”.
AI is very much already at the point that it could be composing original works, and judging them via a “discriminator” which is trained by learning successful patterns from existing songs — using a generative adversarial network, the same technology behind Dall-E.
I’ve been around a while – even though most pop music from any decade is garbage – there were still thousands of good songs in the second half of the twentieth century. That’s simply not true nowadays.
When I listen to today’s “hits” it doesn’t even sound like they are trying to create a good song – or even if they care if they are creating something good or not. It’s just a mass produced, immediately forgettable product, quickly designed to sound exactly like everything else.
By the way, what David said about “the only way to consume music in the 1960s was the mainstream” – that’s a very silly thing to say. Record stores were full of hundreds of records of all kinds of obscure bands as well as mainstream records. And you could also see those obscure bands live playing in some small club, too.
Your take on AI is very insightful for a non-expert. I’d just add that your predictions are very good for the near future. But given enough time (be it 10 years or 10 centuries), theoretically AI can do anything. Anyway, always impressed by your knowledge and didacticism.
I think AI will cripple songwriters because it will help them become more lazy and will give them less incentive to push themselves creatively. People will in fact use AI as a substitute for true human expression and originality because that phenomenon will become extinct.
David, I watch your videos all the time, just dont comment often, but I do love your videos… it was such a great surprise to hear you on pop master the other day, I was like omg I follow this guy on youtube… haha you did well… kudos!