Hey — have you come across Suno? It’s one of those AI platforms that creates full songs from prompts.

I’ve played around with it a bit. I hadn’t touched it in about a year, but I tried it again today and it’s honestly improving fast. The sounds feel more realistic now, and the phrasing, timing, and especially the vocals are noticeably better. It’s impressive… and a little unsettling at the same time. I can see how it could be useful, but I also get how it might feel discouraging. I guess this is one of those technologies we’re going to have to figure out how to coexist with.

One thing I tested was whether it could make a backing track in a very specific style. That part was frustrating. I must have tried eight times just to get a version without lead guitar — even though I kept clearly saying “NO GUITAR!” 😄 Eventually I got there, but it took some convincing.

Another limitation is that you don’t get chord charts, so if you wanted to actually use the track seriously, you’d have to transcribe everything yourself.

On the positive side, I generated a couple of tracks that sounded remarkably close to Bonamassa — in a good way. Really strong stuff.

But when I tried getting it to write classic rock or certain blues tracks, it kept drifting into this modern country-rock vocal style. Over and over. That got annoying pretty quickly. It’s not really my thing.

Have you experimented with tools like this? I’d genuinely be interested to hear what you think about it.