Rick Beato talks A.I. in music with Bjorn from ABBA

I love his videos. Technical music discussion is fascinating

Rick Beato’s breakdown of a songs structure is awesome. I love the episodes of,” what makes this song great.”

quote:

---

The music will be sterile (like today’s music)

---

Pop music has always had a degree of varnished sterility to it, as the process had a way of homogenizing it and boiling it down to hooks and reusable/reworkable melodies. All AI will do is to do that more quickly and more efficiently (from the POV of the record companies).

Plus, we're at the end of Western music innovation. There is only so much you can do with those 12 notes. There are a finite number of chords/chord progressions so everything musical will be increasingly repetitive and derivative. You see it within every genre as it ages and now we're sort of "post" genre.

quote:

---

People like Beethoven did lots with those notes

---

Because it hadn't been done, yet. But, now that there is a Beethoven body of work, you can't do Beethoven "again". Like I said, there is a finite amount of soil to be tilled and it has been mostly tilled. You can dress it up, dumb it down, sleaze around, but at the end of the day, most of it has been done to death.

Beato has some great episodes. He
Knows music and is a real pro.