Back at again with some more insane Frog Rock... pardon, Prog Rock. Enjoy "Amphibian" the 3rd track from my 70's progressive outfit Frog Machine. Much more prog to come in 2025. Happy holidays, folks! Frog Machine - Amphibian (Parts 1-7) 1 - A New Strange Land 0:00 2 - Aqua Lily Pads 1:43 3 - Which Way To Go? 3:22 4 - Into the Everglades 4:07 5 - Happy Hopping 4:49 6 - Stick The Landing 5:53 7 - There..On The Horizon 7:08
Чувствую себя лягушонком, плавающим в волшебном океане прогрессива семидесятых, и это прекрасно и восхитительно. Открыл для себя ещё одну изумительную группу! Спасибо.
@skidco1 apparently so, but it still requires someone with talent behind the scenes, controlling it, guiding it, editing it... but, I have feeling a day will come when AI will no longer need creative input from someone like me, at which point I guess there is no point. But I'm enjoying the process right now. Thanks for checking out the video. Much more on the horizon :)
@@ShadowbannedSounds I guess we'd all like to know how much is human input and how much is AI, is it a 50/50 split at the moment or is weighted one way or the other?
@@skidco1 That depends on how hard the person works on the song, and how much actual outside experience they have with making music. Much like when Photoshop first hit, you had people, many non-artists, who just went in threw a few layers together and applied some filters on an image and called it art, and then you had people who used photoshop as a sophisticated tool to further their craft. A similar approach can be taken with making AI music. The AI programs are pretty sophisticated (I'm using UDIO) and contain editing tools and an array of manipulation tools that give you control over the outcomes. I often find building an AI track is not unlike building a piece of music in music programs, stringing and mixing together various sound bites and samples to ultimately make a song. Keep in mind, something like UDIO generates 30 sec of music at of time, and does so within a number of parameters that you control, and need to do so creatively. Much of music will end up on the cutting room floor. What you omit is just as important as what you choose to keep, so having an ear for music, at the very least, is essential if you hope to create Ai music that stands out from the rest. Editing abilities are key too. I often find it necessary to cut clips down, sometimes as far down as a few seconds of sound to achieve what I want, and then occasionally additional edits can be done in the sound program of your choice. What alot of people don't realize is that the prompt portion in AI Music is not even that important, unlike when you are dealing with AI art, where it is the most important part of the process. All in all, for me at least, It's really just a different way of building music electronically, and a very exciting way at the moment. In the role as an AI music maker I'd say you are much more the conceptualizer, the composer, producer, lyricist, and editor, vs. being the actual person/and or people playing the instruments. The other thing I'll mention is the lyrics section. It's powerful. It doesn't just allow for lyrics but also the ability to to control the sound of the vocals. My best examples of this would be my latest track Yep - Just Hold On, where I explicit wrote in the commands to create all the harmonies, call response lines, overlapping vocals, offset vocals, whether the voices where high, low. Also effects on the voices like echo and delay. So again, the work you put into it is what you get out, like most things. Having said all that, I'd say it's more on the user to adequately guide the AI using any and all possible options to shape the music and bring about a well rounded, well constructed, convincing track. Anyway, a great question. Felt it deserved a thorough answer. I hope that at sheds a little more light on things.
@@ShadowbannedSounds Thank you for your detailed explanation, I feel I understand it much better now. Nosey question, perhaps, are you a known full time musician or maybe a hobbyist after getting back home from work? Loving your work here in the UK.
@@ShadowbannedSounds Thank you very much! I will investigate, if I find anything else, I will let you know here. Thanks to you ! Greetings from Argentina Daniel
@@ShadowbannedSounds I made similar songs with UDIO (featuring fake Shulman and even Minnear and a duet with a fake Annie Haslam too !) and, anyway, I'm a GG fan! 🙂
@ Thank you. AI only does part of the work... there's a great deal of manipulation, editing, I'm doing. It's very different than AI art. You actually have to be able to build a song intuitively. For that you can not depend on the AI. Hundreds of generations are tossed to find what i know id right for the song. It's not unlike building an electronic song in an audio program with sound samples. I'm sometimes cutting sounds down to mere seconds get what I want. This track took me about 18 hours to make. With Ai music, you more or less the composer/producer, sound, editor with some some amazing musicians at your disposal to guide. The prompt in AI Music is not all that important... it's how creatively you use the editing features and your knowledge of making music outside of AI that allows you to make a track that stands apart from the rest and, while being Ai, is also very much yours.
Really interesting music; is t available on CD or just to be loaded ? As having discovered and loved prog when it was making its models and forms around 69/72, I have listened and appreciated a lot of known and unknwon bands like Camel, KC, Gentle Giant, Affinity, etc... but my loce for that music decrease in the 2000's when bands seem to add some metal elements or playing the same music. In your music I hear a lot of influences and it is remembrering a lot of bands. It rememers when I listened Maxophone or Acqua Fragile. Maxophone was inspired by Gentle Giiant, Gryphon, Genesis but the melodies were very interesting and full of complex feelings. Acqua Fragile reminds Genesis but the melodies are really good. What you do is remembreing what Swedish band Agusa made, it is not "new" but it is much better (for me) than many bands who play the same prog and adds some metal soli, riffs.
@frodon54110 Thanks gor the comment! The only place my songs are available right now are here on TH-cam. Did you realize I made this using AI? Welcome to the future :)
Not bad. Dan needs to turn up his guitar and drummer Pat Smitty needs to loosen up a little. Otherwise, more reminiscent of Gentle Giant than any of the other ‘70’s heavyweights. If I brought this home as a 1970’s teenager, it would have ranked somewhere below my Lake album.
You win the prize! You are the only one so far who has equated Frog Machine to Gentle Giant's sound, and you 100% correct in doing so. I think Pat Smitty was on crack when they recorded this ;) He beat the hell out of those drums.
Gentle Giant was a great band right to the end. Yes, right to Civilian (listen to All Through the Night and particularly its hook line). Thanx for posting this stuff. Keep going and create more little gems, please.
I've only made 3 Frog Machine songs so far. The album artwork I make just for the thumbnails and for fun. It helps with the overall immersion. They aren't real albums.
Back at again with some more insane Frog Rock... pardon, Prog Rock. Enjoy "Amphibian" the 3rd track from my 70's progressive outfit Frog Machine. Much more prog to come in 2025. Happy holidays, folks!
Frog Machine - Amphibian (Parts 1-7)
1 - A New Strange Land 0:00
2 - Aqua Lily Pads 1:43
3 - Which Way To Go? 3:22
4 - Into the Everglades 4:07
5 - Happy Hopping 4:49
6 - Stick The Landing 5:53
7 - There..On The Horizon 7:08
Happy Holidays !! Thanks !!
Love it Thank you !
Чувствую себя лягушонком, плавающим в волшебном океане прогрессива семидесятых, и это прекрасно и восхитительно. Открыл для себя ещё одну изумительную группу! Спасибо.
Thank you. I'll definitely be making more Frog Machine songs in the future. Stay tuned.
This is really good - it made me tap my feet.
This is convincing stuff including the sleeve. Brave new (AI) world?
@skidco1 apparently so, but it still requires someone with talent behind the scenes, controlling it, guiding it, editing it... but, I have feeling a day will come when AI will no longer need creative input from someone like me, at which point I guess there is no point. But I'm enjoying the process right now. Thanks for checking out the video. Much more on the horizon :)
@@ShadowbannedSounds I guess we'd all like to know how much is human input and how much is AI, is it a 50/50 split at the moment or is weighted one way or the other?
@@skidco1 That depends on how hard the person works on the song, and how much actual outside experience they have with making music. Much like when Photoshop first hit, you had people, many non-artists, who just went in threw a few layers together and applied some filters on an image and called it art, and then you had people who used photoshop as a sophisticated tool to further their craft. A similar approach can be taken with making AI music. The AI programs are pretty sophisticated (I'm using UDIO) and contain editing tools and an array of manipulation tools that give you control over the outcomes. I often find building an AI track is not unlike building a piece of music in music programs, stringing and mixing together various sound bites and samples to ultimately make a song. Keep in mind, something like UDIO generates 30 sec of music at of time, and does so within a number of parameters that you control, and need to do so creatively. Much of music will end up on the cutting room floor. What you omit is just as important as what you choose to keep, so having an ear for music, at the very least, is essential if you hope to create Ai music that stands out from the rest. Editing abilities are key too. I often find it necessary to cut clips down, sometimes as far down as a few seconds of sound to achieve what I want, and then occasionally additional edits can be done in the sound program of your choice. What alot of people don't realize is that the prompt portion in AI Music is not even that important, unlike when you are dealing with AI art, where it is the most important part of the process. All in all, for me at least, It's really just a different way of building music electronically, and a very exciting way at the moment. In the role as an AI music maker I'd say you are much more the conceptualizer, the composer, producer, lyricist, and editor, vs. being the actual person/and or people playing the instruments. The other thing I'll mention is the lyrics section. It's powerful. It doesn't just allow for lyrics but also the ability to to control the sound of the vocals. My best examples of this would be my latest track Yep - Just Hold On, where I explicit wrote in the commands to create all the harmonies, call response lines, overlapping vocals, offset vocals, whether the voices where high, low. Also effects on the voices like echo and delay. So again, the work you put into it is what you get out, like most things. Having said all that, I'd say it's more on the user to adequately guide the AI using any and all possible options to shape the music and bring about a well rounded, well constructed, convincing track. Anyway, a great question. Felt it deserved a thorough answer. I hope that at sheds a little more light on things.
@@ShadowbannedSounds Thank you for your detailed explanation, I feel I understand it much better now. Nosey question, perhaps, are you a known full time musician or maybe a hobbyist after getting back home from work? Loving your work here in the UK.
Хороший качественный прог-рок, как бокал хорошего вина на душу. Спасибо, и с наступающими праздниками!
Indeed it is! 🍷Thank you for your kind comment, comrade!
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Reminds me caravan,camel,eloy!!!the last part is masterpiece!!!
Thanks! That's very high praise. Love all those bands :)
heavy yes vibes
Great!!! New for me ! Thanks !
Don't worry... It's new to everyone, lol. Made it last week. Glad you enjoyed.
@@ShadowbannedSounds Thank you very much! I will investigate, if I find anything else, I will let you know here. Thanks to you ! Greetings from Argentina Daniel
So good! Enjoyed this! 🎶🎸
Thanks! I have my 4th Frog Machine song in the works. Should be out by the end of next week. I usually put Frog Machine out on Friday nights ;)
Gentle Yessant, needs more Gtar!!! Daanngg goood tho
Thanks, man! Appreciate all the comments. New Frog Machine song coming this Friday🐸👍
As always, this is a wonderful piece of record art, with a truly outstanding world view and total production👍
Thank you :) The album art is inspired by the great Roger Dean and his album art, particulary the stuff he did for Yes.
I love this! New subscriber! Happy Holidays ✨️ 🥂
Thank you, sir! Happy Holidays to you too! Plenty more music on the horizon in 2025 ;)
Derek ShulmAIn on vocals? ;-)
So far you're the only one who picked up on that. Good ear 👍
@@ShadowbannedSounds I made similar songs with UDIO (featuring fake Shulman and even Minnear and a duet with a fake Annie Haslam too !) and, anyway, I'm a GG fan! 🙂
@spriggan3935 GG is awesome!
I was also reminded of Ashley Holt, Rick Wakeman's vocalist.
This is good shit
I wonder how ai does this
It fucking has mellotrons and choirs together
the instumental part is so good
@ Thank you. AI only does part of the work... there's a great deal of manipulation, editing, I'm doing. It's very different than AI art. You actually have to be able to build a song intuitively. For that you can not depend on the AI. Hundreds of generations are tossed to find what i know id right for the song. It's not unlike building an electronic song in an audio program with sound samples. I'm sometimes cutting sounds down to mere seconds get what I want. This track took me about 18 hours to make. With Ai music, you more or less the composer/producer, sound, editor with some some amazing musicians at your disposal to guide. The prompt in AI Music is not all that important... it's how creatively you use the editing features and your knowledge of making music outside of AI that allows you to make a track that stands apart from the rest and, while being Ai, is also very much yours.
@ Indeed it does :) What a glorious thing!
Rollon to be show
Okay, you have my curiosity... what WOULD "frog" rock sound like?
🎉
actually decent ai prog rock
Thanks! Like your avatar 👍
Nice sleeve! The music isn’t there yet. I guess AI is getting closer to emulating '70s prog, which it hasn’t quite captured so far.
Really interesting music; is t available on CD or just to be loaded ? As having discovered and loved prog when it was making its models and forms around 69/72, I have listened and appreciated a lot of known and unknwon bands like Camel, KC, Gentle Giant, Affinity, etc... but my loce for that music decrease in the 2000's when bands seem to add some metal elements or playing the same music. In your music I hear a lot of influences and it is remembrering a lot of bands. It rememers when I listened Maxophone or Acqua Fragile. Maxophone was inspired by Gentle Giiant, Gryphon, Genesis but the melodies were very interesting and full of complex feelings. Acqua Fragile reminds Genesis but the melodies are really good. What you do is remembreing what Swedish band Agusa made, it is not "new" but it is much better (for me) than many bands who play the same prog and adds some metal soli, riffs.
@frodon54110 Thanks gor the comment! The only place my songs are available right now are here on TH-cam. Did you realize I made this using AI? Welcome to the future :)
@@ShadowbannedSounds Frog Machine has something to do with facebook group called "Prog not frog" where I posted in the mid 2000"s many posts ?
@@frodon54110 I don't know. The name Frog machine is just a band name I made up for the music. I make up all the band names on my channel.
Not bad. Dan needs to turn up his guitar and drummer Pat Smitty needs to loosen up a little. Otherwise, more reminiscent of Gentle Giant than any of the other ‘70’s heavyweights. If I brought this home as a 1970’s teenager, it would have ranked somewhere below my Lake album.
You win the prize! You are the only one so far who has equated Frog Machine to Gentle Giant's sound, and you 100% correct in doing so. I think Pat Smitty was on crack when they recorded this ;) He beat the hell out of those drums.
Gentle Giant was a great band right to the end. Yes, right to Civilian (listen to All Through the Night and particularly its hook line).
Thanx for posting this stuff. Keep going and create more little gems, please.
If this is AI generated music I think it's still wearing diapers
How many tracks are on the disc, I only found 3.
I've only made 3 Frog Machine songs so far. The album artwork I make just for the thumbnails and for fun. It helps with the overall immersion. They aren't real albums.