Compose mediocre music without taking classes

The beauty of rock music is that you only really need to know three chords to make a song. But for some, even that low bar is unattainable. Fortunately, there's JamStudio comes in.

JamStudio is an online music generating application. Just select a couple of chords, choose your instruments, and JamStudio will do the rest. There's no need to worry that your chords will sound bad together, because the application only presents you with chords in your chosen key.

Overall, it's awfully limiting for anyone who actually knows what they're doing. You can't play individual notes, for example. But for the musically challenged, or for someone who just wants their PC to play a chord progression so they can pull out the old banjo and jam along, JamStudio can provide hours (Okay, minutes) of fun.

The basic application is free to use, but it looks like the company plans to offer a paid service that will give you more virtual instruments and effects to play around with, as well as some tools to teach yourself real music theory. Or at least some guitar chords).

[via Random Good Stuff]

Tags: jamstudio, music, timewasters