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▲ 8 r/blues

Anyone write blues songs for fun? (or otherwise?)

I wrote two tunes today, which was unusually productive for me despite it being a forgiving genre to write for...

Anyone here write tunes? Especially non-musicians that want to have one of their songs recorded? But really, even if you don't want to record, just curious how many songwriters we have here. I'm always looking for opportunities to collab with others, and thought maybe there'd be someone that has always wanted to hear one of their ideas actually become a recorded tune? Anyway, might be fun. Anyone looking to record some tunes, let me know!

Also, I'm trying to organize a band so anyone in the area of southeastern NH (MA - North of Boston, ME - South of Portland) wants to talk, lemma know. :)

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u/jebbanagea — 9 days ago
▲ 19 r/blues

Mother’s Day Blues

ROUGH draft, but I won’t finish on Mother’s Day proper, so it will do for now…

u/jebbanagea — 10 days ago
▲ 6 r/bluesguitarist

Usual caveats. I’m not a professional player or a teacher of any sort. Just one of the many players enjoying the guitar and wanted to share what could be a helpful concept for a couple of you. Especially if you’re new and are struggling with making melodies on your guitar, or think you need to do this or that technique to play nice things.

In this video I encourage you to learn how to play major and minor scales using only one string at a time. For each key, it’s a good way to start to make more connections with where the intervals are and where the notes you want to play live. And by accident you almost have to try NOT to be musical. So, it’s a nice way to have some fun right away and build up some knowledge while you do it. Anyway, hope it lands for one or two out there. All I care about is making one person break out of a funk, or try something new and get some new satisfaction from playing. I know how frustrating it can be to feel like there’s no music there, just frustrating mistakes and memorization that leaves some of the fun to some undefined date in the future. Doesn’t have to be! Have fun.

u/jebbanagea — 14 days ago
▲ 42 r/blues

Hi sub -

First - I hope others add tips for identifying AI blues. It’s a scourge and a disgrace to the genre. No surprise, the genre is being exploited more than others and this crap is everywhere. I think it’s a con and the people that create these YouTube channels, Spotify accounts, are low character talentless scum. I have a real disdain for the people that distribute this garbage and a genuine sadness that seemingly thousands of people are listening to and supporting this crapola.

Long form compilations and AI thumbnails and visuals are one sign. The cliche blues vocals are another. Guitar tones that appear across different channels so much that you instantly recognize them as the “SUNO tone” is another. Basically, if it’s music that sounds professionally produced but there’s no artist name or a made up cliche blues artist name that you’ve never heard of, it’s almost certainly AI. It’s hard to miss it. This dreck is everywhere and blues is under special assault by these music fraudsters. Support the real thing. Not saying you need to buy anything, but there are many small professionals and even more decent amateurs out there that make decent blues. Anyone that’s trying is 1000% better than all the AI crap combined. This stuff is a blight and blues is being hit especially hard. It really bothers me.

Thanks for letting me rant a bit. I love blues with all my heart and it kills me to see this.

AI blues is theft.

AI blues is an insult to the men and women that created it, only to see their work vacuumed up by an algorithm and spit back out to the ignorant but well meaning masses.

u/jebbanagea — 20 days ago