Liam O Byrne

As I go to write this blog post I notice a new feature offered by my website provider...AI blog posts. Simply type in any prompt and bang, a few paragraphs for you to post and call your own. As with AI music, we now have the option to bypass the creating stage and go directly to the end product. But to take this route is to reduce the act of creation to merely a means to an end. Something time-consuming and unnecessary that we can now conveniently bypass. To me this approach reveals a greater...

If we want to become fluent musicians we must learn like a child. Practicing simple musical elements that can be deeply understood and...

One of the challenges of the fluency method is playing for playing’s sake. If you’re used to a system of learning where the learning...