AI and the future state of music creation

[michaelhanson]

I’ve been looking for ways to us AI to assist me in original song creation.  How to use it as a tool. 
 

I’ve always struggled with lyrics.  So lately, I’ve been writing lyrics and then running them through Chat and asking it to improve my lyrics or make suggestion.  Most of what I get doesn’t fit where I want to go, but it sometimes spits out a line or an idea that I take and build upon.  I’m using it like a cowriter to bounce idea off and get a reaction.  This has greatly spread up lyrics for me. 

[Jimbo 88]

3 hours ago, michaelhanson said:

I’ve been looking for ways to us AI to assist me in original song creation.  How to use it as a tool. 
 

I’ve always struggled with lyrics.  So lately, I’ve been writing lyrics and then running them through Chat and asking it to improve my lyrics or make suggestion.  Most of what I get doesn’t fit where I want to go, but it sometimes spits out a line or an idea that I take and build upon.  I’m using it like a cowriter to bounce idea off and get a reaction.  This has greatly spread up lyrics for me. 

Very good .

Me too.   I will also have a song I want to create, even have it finished, then try to get AI to create a song similar to mine.  What I find is that AI gives me ideas on how to improve song forms and even arrangements.   The songs generated from AI sound so formulaic to me, but once in a while there will be an idea to pull from.

The future will have those who use AI and those who don't.    

[Amberwolf]

6 hours ago, Jimbo 88 said:

The future will have those who use AI and those who don't.    

It might end up more like "The future will have those who are used by AI and....that's it."

    

[craigb]

I asked AI to make Yoko Ono sound good but it replied that it doesn't perform miracles. 😁

[lmu2002]

I've been playing with Suno for a while. Making it create 80's music. And the results have been very good. And when I remember that 80's music was 90% average **** it makes perfect sense: Suno does exactly that, average music. And it's fine. It has done it's homework better than I or anyone ever could. But it doesn't produce unique, shiny diamonds. I even got a couple of songs that I like listening to, so I downloaded them and will make a cool playlist for my personal use as I go along.

I'm also trying to learn what it does and why. It's an opportunity to learn about music's secrets and songwriting  in a very new way. Not sure if the charm will last too long but that's fine too.

[michaelhanson]

On 10/30/2025 at 2:55 AM, craigb said:

I asked AI to make Yoko Ono sound good but it replied that it doesn't perform miracles. 😁

I’m even more impressed with AI now. 

[Tony Carpenter]

I too jumped on Suno, I uploaded a few of my songs that I recorded, everything from a straight acoustic guitar and vocal to a finished recording. The results are astounding and very natural sounding at least in the genres I have chosen so far. It's ability to listen to my melodies and rhythms and translate them to something almost entirely new is well.. amazing.  It's putting my over half a century of song writing in serious question LOL> 

Edited Friday at 04:25 AM by Tony Carpenter

[PhonoBrainer]

I will never use AI in the creation of music or lyrics. Opinions vary, but in my view, computer assisted = computer enabled. 

The creation of music and words in a cohesive song is not only something that marks us as human, but also more importantly, something that makes us unique and distinct from our fellow humans. Isn't that kind of sacred?

Plus it's an awkward songwriting credit:

"Lennon/McCartney/Hewlett-Packard "

 

 

Edited Friday at 02:14 PM by PhonoBrainer

[Notes_Norton]

I'm not a songwriter. All the lyrics I write sound trite and hackneyed. Probably because the words are the last thing I pay attention to. Until I've digested the song they are just articulations of the melody. But since I play sax, flute, guitar, bass, drums, wind synth, and keyboard synth, I want to know what every musician is doing. How they contrast or complement each other. How about the groove? Phrasing? Balance? Musical ornaments?  And so much more.

But I went to Suno out of curiosity and was very impressed with the sample songs. Especially in the pop and modern country genre, where I'm used to hearing auto-tune voices, If I heard most of them without trying to decide if they were AI or not, the thought wouldn't have crossed my mind.

I make my own backing tracks for my duo, and I write after market styles for the Band-in-a-Box app. But for me, the creative process is what I like. It's like a puzzle. What do I want to accomplish, how do I do it, what do I need to change, and so forth? And when I'm done, I get that good sense of accomplishment.   

Having AI do all the work for me would be more like listening and appreciating songs made by others. I wouldn't get the "Listen to what I did" feeling.

But that's just me. I don't write songs to make a living, and I don't need AI for gigging. DJs, Karaoke, Open Mic Night, Sports Bars and others already cut into my end of the business, but I found my niche, and adapted. 

If I get requests for an AI song, and if can cover it, I'd learn it.

 

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