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Drumeo and AI (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Just sat through a disheartening video from my former drum-teachers at Drumeo, about how AI is inevitable and that musicians that don't use AI will be left behind, comparing it to when tractors came to farming... wtf?

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

What was their reasoning? In what ways would "ai" (which is LLM at the moment) help musicians and especially drummers?

I can't think of a way LLMs could improve musicians.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    One example that the owner used was: (from memory not direct quote) lets say someone liked our piano teacher, but the piano teacher doesn't do jazz, we could then make an AI generated video with her teaching jazz-piano, assuming she would be ok with it (as he looks over his shoulder to an visible uncomfortable piano teacher).
    They where quick to say that so far they haven't used any AI-generated music or lessons, but they clearly see it as a possibility in the future, to "keep up".

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Ok, so music education specifically... Sadly I can see that.

    How to just play instruments and general basic features of genres.. I could see generative AI able to do things on that front. Most notably ability to analyze your performance and identify gaps. Basic rote stuff without need for creativity or soul. The same stuff that countless musicians have already done. I don't think there is a need to genAI up pre-recorded, non interactive lessons, but I could buy interactive AI experience as being feasible and competitive.

    At least in theory, though I see that video of someone asking for feedback on their music and it's just literal random farting and the AI was still quite complimentary. But Iif someone told me someone curated a more specialized GenAI experienced that worked better in the context... I would at least believe in the feasibility.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You've clearly not heard any of the Ai generated music.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I have, it's not an improvement over musicians. I see no way it could help a musician. I can see how it could help a non musician generate something that can pass for music, but I don't see a musician getting use out of AI.

    For writing music, if you could write music before, AI can't help you. If you know how but just have a creative block, random AI crap won't be any better in a musicians hands than a random person.

    When it comes to performing, largely virtual instruments without AI could already handle those credibly. Stuff like violin might have taken longer, but it got there. The one exception is vocals, where vocaloid was about as far as non AI could get and while interesting, no one was going to mistake vocaloid for real singer. AI vocals can pass for a phoned in vocal performance. But I'd just as soon have a real singer, there's no shortage thanks to decades of music and the Internet.

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