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You and your guitar sounding good pn this one Grah.     

Cheers Richard and Jim Happy New Year and thank you for your feedback.  I occasionally use a capo when playing  especially now my fingers are not as they use to be. It is a bit of a slow set up for me making sure its set right and the string tuning is all good. If I was doing a show I would definitely use a capo like yours Richard. When I use to visit the guitar shop I sometimes used one like the one in your picture if my friend working in the shop had a guitar for me to play on and when on some occasions he would encourage me to play using a capo like yours which he kept under the counter...  The mandolin player wasn't happy with my choice of tempo but was ok with my choice of notes for her to play. She didn't want me to use her name on the tune. I tried to make the instrumental into three parts with different tempos. After a bit discussion we compromised with just over dubbing her playing a few bars at the end instead of the two of us being out of sync and playing together all the way through. I don't think I could have managed to match the speed of the mandolin player or the tempo she was happy playing at..     

I like what your doing there Richard with your friend  getting out there and giving folk who have been slowed down a chance to enjoy some music.     

Good one Piri and Richard it is real interesting what you guys are putting up on here. These interaction have been good value thank you I just looked at the official Spotify  top 40 most played songs in New Zealand for the last 18 months. Apart from Wham who I think was only a duo the rest are solo artists from what I can tell.. I suppose I should also say one of the songs was a duo with Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. The Top 40 singles in New Zealand  for last week are similar. On the You Tube New Zealand top 40 most played from the 6th to 12 th December there is a few more bands. Wham , Coldplay, NSYNC, Little River Band.  I think listening habits might get a bit skewed at this time of year due to the Christmas season.  The one constant through out human history I guess is what does an individual define as sound and what is noise.  It always going to be blurry subject one persons music is another persons unwanted auditory experience. Do we need to experience music with our ears might sound like a stupid question or is it??Beethoven composed some of his most important works during the last 10 years of his life when he was quite unable to hear  He even introduced the world to his most famous composition, the Ninth Symphony, after deafness had overtaken him
I will attach a link to a short vid to how some deaf people experience music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTWLoFuEvL4

Good on you Grah for showing us how AI can make a song lyric work. The trouble with AI for me is though it would improve my songwriting for sure it would also take away the  reason I dabble in music and take away any satisfaction of creating something that represents me. The thing I think that ruins much of modern recordings is the way the production quantization on them is removing all the natural human nuances that my ears love. Everything tends to sound sanitized or mechanical to me. Like Phill I find modern music tends to sound the same. It all sounds so homogenized I think somewhere in recent times innovativeness like the Beatles had has disappeared. Maybe the powerful music moguls have manage to destroy that through wanting to lower the cost of recording. I suppose with modern streaming and the lack of people buying vinyl recordings there is not the financial return that there use to be for musicians and recording companies. I suppose Spotify and the like do extremely well financially out of it not the artists. I think its something like 80% of people access their music through streaming platforms making the platform rich not the artists. I have been told by many being a talented musician/producer is not the same as being good at music business. To me when I'm out and about in various shops and food and drink outlets hearing the music they play it all sounds formulaic and homogenized with this modern trend making it hard for me to hear any difference from one song to another. Who was it who said the road to musical hell is paved with Gold???? My other question would be in music who is making gold and who is been sold down the plug hole.??? The thing I think that makes the human mind better than AI at times is our minds can go of in different unexpected tangents making our creativity able to produce more punch than AI. I heard a muscian being interviewed a while back saying at gigs, they sometimes make more money on their merch embroidered hats and tea shirts than their music.     

Cheers Richard, I was thinking while drilling down into this subject what simple instruments I would use or suggest getting a young kid started on a music playing journey. The ones that I think that I would suggest for starters are as follow, melodica, ukulele, recorder. Then if a kid showed aptitude or a desire I would then look into pianos, guitars or other traditional instruments   before venturing out to other gizmos. Though there are some musical genius whiz kids on YouTube who are playing traditional instruments at an incredible young age better than adults most humans are challenged and have to work hard to play any instrument at any level. In my most probably not so good opinion, anything that comes easy doesn't always have the same satisfaction of an achievement that comes with a bit of a struggle. To me there will always be good social capital at being good at something but the real good feeling is when you overcome something to get there. Enough of my ranting hope this gives someone food for thought even if what i am posting on here doesn't make sense.     

Good one Piri, I just found on youtube a description of the instrument that lady was playing. I will attach a link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkbwnP3YjFk     

Thank you Piri I was wondering if anyone would get my humour.   Some of the young ones around here think my  sense of humour comes from my old man grumpiness. A young friend of mine loves this video of a busker playing her guitar and singing attached. Me, though I like her voice. I don't see how you can call her guitar a guitar I would call it something else what I'm not sure. Maybe I would call it a prerecord key selector of real instruments..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGpXxlSjrRE     

Good lyrics in there Jim you have a great way of expressing many a writer's frustration at getting words onto paper.     

Cheers Piri I have enjoyed the interaction on here with you. When I look at the hair and clothing styles that I was into at a different phases of my life I often think what was I thinking. It always amazes the younger generation that see those photos of the young fella that was me with long ginger hair is now the person who has what's left of his hair colored grey. The younger me and the me now are most probably from different planets. Maybe that could be a book title Young Are from Mars Old Are From Venus. though I can't really see that becoming a central metaphor in any society.

Cheers Richard and Piri, you are right if used properly AI can be good. But what I am saying if you have a talent, and you want to express what is humanly in you then I don't think you need to depend on AI. Though I have met a singer poet and writer who tells me he now uses AI to develop his lyrical ideas. I have another friend who uses Band In A Box sometimes to write music but for the final product he likes to actually get musicians to play.  I have heard at open mikes now many turn up with backing tracks instead of accompanying themselves with a guitar or whatever. To me if people do that, they should call it Karaoke. Though I not against using tech along with instruments to fill out the sound.  Bands using click tracks live tends to sound stilted to me though with a solo player it can work for me as an audience member. When a band has a drummer I notice the free flying ones are more enjoyable to my ear then ones who are obviously using click tracks. Was it Ringo Starr who famously said I am the click track in the recording studio? But with regards to AI being used as part of the creative process it most probably feels ok to the younger ones where to me being a person who likes it to be from me it wouldn't feel right. But the truth been told it would most probably give me a better composition.
BTW
The outro chords came about after I pushed the wrong buttons on my keyboard by mistake and I realized the full organ sound sort of worked.