Gimme a beat: ways musicians can use AI

From songwriting to vocal pitch correction, AI has musical capabilities that can transform how musicians create their art. Despite legitimate concerns about how it will affect our collective creativity, AI can positively assist the creative process. Learn how musicians can leverage AI and how it impacts their artistry.

How can you use AI for music?

AI’s musical capabilities have boundless offerings for musicians. Many features, such as vocal cloning, raise alarms about the future of musical artistry. Popular artists have raised concerns about artistic integrity, ownership, and identity. Vocal clones and lyric copycats have been a notorious issue. However, AI offers a myriad of collaborative features that musicians can leverage to assist, rather than replace, their creative process and artistry. Some of those capabilities include:

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Generating melodies, chord progressions, and lyrics

Musicians experiencing writer’s block can turn to AI to help them out of a creative slump. Have a melody for a song but can’t write fitting lyrics? You can provide a topic for AI to write about, along with other specifications. AI can also help with other elements of the songwriting process, such as generating melodies, chord progressions, and more.

Correcting pitch

Pitch correction and modulating vocal recordings can be tedious. AI can correct vocal pitch and ensure recordings are crisp, in-tune, and fit your creative intentions. Shift the sound editing labor to AI so you can invest more energy into songwriting and recording.

Mixing and mastering songs

Professional mixing services can be tedious, expensive, and time-consuming. Sound engineering is a technical skill that requires extensive experience to master and mix music professionally. Luckily, AI can simplify the process—upload your track to an AI-powered mastering and mixing service for swift and professional delivery.

Create songs

When you want something entirely new to listen to, AI can create entire songs based on your specifications. You can specify mood, genre, length, instruments, and other parameters. AI can generate music suitable for any moment or feeling and produce it within mere moments. For example, you can ask a generative AI software, with musical capabilities, to create a fifteen-minute classical music instrumental, with a pronounced string section to serve as a soundtrack while you focus on work.

Isolating voices

AI can seamlessly isolate and extract acapella vocal tracks, making it ideal for various vocal recordings. For example, during a live music performance, you can instantly separate your voice from a noisy crowd, noisy instruments, and other extraneous sounds. In real-life applications, AI helped Paul McCartney isolate John Lennon’s voice from a demo recording. These demo vocals are now being used to release the final Beatles record.

As AI continues to evolve, its musical capabilities are endless. It can transform the genre of songs, sample music, isolate voices, mix, master, and more. With music and other art forms, AI can be your trusted collaborator and serve as a vehicle, driving your artistic vision to actualization. For more ways AI can assist your creativity, learn how you can use everyday AI.