Guitar solo on iPad shreds

At first I kind of made fun of GarageBand on the iPad because I never thought anyone could make truly compelling music on a touch device. That's all changed after I saw Cult of Mac point out George Lambro's guitar solo on the iPad. I'll let the music speak for itself, but I will say this is how the iPad becomes "magical," as Apple likes to put it. It's not so much what the device can do, but what people can do with the device.

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philscbx

That was Incredibly Cool.
You'd have to be retarded to not enjoy it 110%.

May 31 2011 at 2:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Seisiuneer

Here's a Tex-Mex band using the Hohner SqueezeBox button accordion app in their act, pretty amazing stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BWiDOgAdHI

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the apps for Hohner...

May 27 2011 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Coolness for $500

Somebody creates something very cool with an iPad. I also own an iPad. Hence, I am also very cool.

May 26 2011 at 9:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

derekpane

Air iPad anyone!

May 26 2011 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robert Nickson

Same chords as 'Cranberries - Zombie' (and probably more). just saying...

May 26 2011 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OlsonBW

For the person who can't appreciate the skill of the other person that created this video, give us something better. In only giving us something better, made only with iPads by the way, does your opinion count.

Alice did an excellent job using what tool she was using. The limiting, is the iPad. Now tell me about ANY device out there that can do everything that Alice did and do it better for anywhere near the price and portability that includes ALL of the instruments that she used. As far as I know, no other ones exist. THAT, and Alice doing very well, is the point.

Great job Alice. I'm jealous (in a good way) of your musical abilities.

I'm in awe of Apple getting things are good as they are at this point in time. I expect Apple to make the instruments sound less digital over time if that is possible and I think it is.

May 26 2011 at 11:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kelmon

I'm always in awe of people who can do this, whether it is playing an instrument for real or knocking out music on their computer. I love music but have no imagination or skill such that I can make my own. Hitting the "Demo" button on an electronic keyboard is about as far as these things go. I couldn't even manage Chopsticks...

May 26 2011 at 4:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robrt

Very well done. For my part, I think the electric guitar simulation is pretty OK; but I dislike the synthetic quality of the acoustic "plucked" guitar..it almost sounds like a clavi.
But I stand totally in awe for the Garageband and the iPad's music qualities. GB is actually pretty impressive considering the $4.99 price point and that the iDevice has only 256 MB of RAM,
I prefer embracing synth-ey sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AROiqCydJ9I

May 26 2011 at 3:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Sandberg

I agree. it's not about the music, which sounds like it could have been done with real instruments to me, it's about the fact that it's done on an iPad. That little device that I carry around every day and don't even think of as more than a notepad and occasional TV screen. It's way much more than that, and this is what Apple is all about. Thinking differently.

May 26 2011 at 1:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Atul Chitnis

Folks criticizing the music are TOTALLY missing the point here. The "magic" part of the entire thing is not the music (which is good, no matter what you say), but the fact that this was done on an iPad - and could potentially have been done in the middle of nowhere, on a flight, or wherever/whenever, to capture a musical idea that can then be processed later.

Do you have ANY idea about how valuable that would be to a musician?

May 26 2011 at 12:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jdalelund

It's important to distinguish here between the physical instrument and the ability to make music happen, which is really what this is all about.

I'm a professional musician, and yes, I agree that MIDI patches, while they are getting better all the time, are approximations of real instrument sounds. No matter what program I use or how hard I try, I can't get a MIDI instrument to play with the same articulations and sensitivity as I can on my guitar, unless that's what I used to actually play the notes...you can always tell the difference no matter how good your patches are or how you program velocity, etc.

However, there are still LOTS of ways in which this is useful. Like someone said, what if you get an idea on the train? You could do a full band mock-up of something you could then take to rehearsal that night, and then play it with real people. It'd save a lot of time explaining to someone whose instrument you don't play what kind of feel you're looking for. I wish I'd had something like this a decade ago, so I didn't have to sing ideas into my own voicemail to remember them!

Or what if you don't play an instrument? This provides a great way for anyone to make music, and that might be the most important aspect of this...the idea that music's for everybody. That said, this is a heck of a job; nice work! Can't we all just get along?

May 26 2011 at 2:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply