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JamStudio lets you quickly sketch out song ideas, even if you're clueless
Brad covered JamStudio back in 2007, but the site has changed its looks and seems to have added plenty of new functionality. It's basically a quick way of throwing a song together, and all you have to do is click a bunch of chords and instruments. You are not likely to make actual music with this, but I actually don't think you should be trying to.
Personally, I can see myself using this tool to communicate my song ideas to some of my friends who actually have a clue about music and can play an instrument. As a musically illiterate person, it can be very frustrating when I have a clear idea for a tune that can go well with some lyrics I wrote, but I have no way to communicate it to a friend of mine who wants to compose the song (because I don't know any chords and I can't even hum it properly).
JamStudio lets me play around with a bunch of chords until I come up with something that sounds right, and then I can just show it to my musically skilled friends, and they'll get a clear idea of what I would like the song to sound like.
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Subscribe to commentswingmanOct 10th 2010 7:49AM
How about doing a story about how JamStudio tried to rip me off? I joined, the thing stopped working soon after, I wasn't able to access everything promised and then took many, many emails to "clint" and "dave" to get any kind of response. JamStudio is a rip off.
Erez ZukermanOct 10th 2010 1:24PM
Hi there,
That sounds interesting. Would you be able to forward me the complete email exchange to myfirstname.mylastname at weblogsinc dot com?
wingmanOct 11th 2010 6:23AM
Erez: I'm not sure what you mean, myfirstname.mylastname etc
I'll be glad to provide you the emails if you give me an emal address to send them to