John Dyhouse

Another track from a selected persona from Suno AI. The only problem with this feature is that the max length of the track is only slightly more than 3 minutes And most songs will need extending; the track lgth here is slightlly over 5 minutes. But if Suno doesn't stitch the two tracks together, there is always Audacity or similar. I also needed to get the vocal and musical stems to raise the leve...

Not my usual style, but a lighthearted poem written in a daily prompt competion. Set to music in Suno AI. in a style to follow the lyric.

To be serious, this is a song I demoed last february (2024); one of a number of older songs I was trying to catch up and post onto Soundcloud. This series was just me and my ukulele, most of which had not been recorded before. Originally this song was from 1979. This track uses a persona (nominated vocalist) called Randy Matrix (Suno requires a name), so I am having fun with the names and putiing...

This was a cover (Suno AI) of a previous song called, "I remember". I wanted to extend the lyric, by repeating the bridge and the last verse. However the end of that verse was/is quite weak; so I also repeated the bridge, further extending the song to over 4 minutes. This gave a much better, stronger ending and a better title. I wrote the original in the late seventies and extended the song just b...

I am tempted to say once again... And now for something completely different but I won't. So just let me say, "I didn't expect that..." This 16 line poem was written several years ago and is in fact in a collection of poetry, one of three which I published on Amazon. In order to create a "song", I made the intro, the bridge and an outro from quoting from Budhist chants. I then let Suno loose on th...

Another song from the late seventies, but in a much quieter reflective mood. I had passed this one over a number of times and had thought it was one of the songs I would not be putting thru' the AI mill. However, I was listening to some country songs yesterday and looking thru' my notebooks again, this one shouted out to me, "It's my turn!". So here it is. I did however, tweak it a little and adde...

Still feelinga little bit up tempo, written by myself in 1979; actually, I was trying to do punk and wrote 3-4 songs in this genre. Any way hope you like this Rock version.

And now for something completely different (as Monty Python would say),,,, Not very often, but now an then, I write a song which has nothing to do with anything I have done before or since. This was from 1977/8 whilst still twenty something. Finishing a master's degree and ready to face the world. No idea where the theme/subject came from - but like a lot of my songs i probably saw the title in a...

Still feeling a need for noise and a rock rythm. I have posted this before - twice, just me and my acoustic guitar. The first was 11 years ago, but actually written in 1977. It may be that this version is your cup of tea, or whatever you favourite hot drink may be.

Felt like letting go today. A rock number seemed to match the mood I was in. Some times I am amazed how closely a melody generated by Suno can come to the melodies sang the lyrics with myself. When I write, I don't conciously work on the melody, I just sing the lyric. the natural rythm of the words? Any way I loved this one as soon as I heard heard the vocal start. All I had to do was to extend th...

I was a little unhapy at the views of this song as intially uploaded. Wondering why it was so well below average views, I listened to it and decided to create a Suno cover and try to spruce it up. This is the result. I think it is improved and sounds better with a fiddle lead, rather than with a big band sound. Maybe the wrong genre originally selected for this song, Or was it just too retro - any...

A song from 1977, I did not upload a clip to force the AI to use my original - a little pedestrian? But I did quite like this version (#6 I think, I also liked the fiddle). I do not like the way that Suno puts a strong western accent on vocals for country songs and it seems false if I offer a clip to a song in this genre. Hope it strikes a chord with you!

This is another older song writtenin 1979, I dont think I have posted this one before, I was never really happy with the lyrics. However, I think using a bluesy style really works well, so thougt I would throw it open for your perusal. It is really growing on me in this version

I wrote the chorus of this song after reading a womans magazine, not somethin I ususally lower myself to (just joking!). But the title hit me as the basis for a song, and so spent the next two nights putting the rest of the lyric down. I had a rough tune in mind, but not really developed so quite honestly left it to Suno to see what it could do. I went thru a few iterations , it was really the str...

After a slight break to do some necessary "Christmas related things", My latest offering ( updated with the help of SUNO v4) is this song which I wrote in the sixties. As usual, lots of editing - I am getting to know audacity quite well, at least a lot better than I did for my demos with the ukulele.

A song I found to be difficult to achieve what I wanted with. Sometimes I find that Suno will get something very wrong and no amount of regenerating helps. The AI seems to remember what it has done and the reiterations just get worse and worse. However I persevered, and changed what I was doing with the prompts and slowly it improved. This was one of three versions I kept and it won on several cou...

Here is a little Big Band music for a change. Using a song written by myself in December 1975. I have sample my voice singing a capella and uploaded to Suno. The AI did quite a good job simulating my voice and using the original melodies, but of course, it always tries to show off as it develops the song from the original. I like it, I hope it may work for you.

It had to come.... One of the real benefits of AI to the song writer, is the ease and speed with which countless versions/remixes/genres and styles can be assessed for each song. Yes, the writer may have genre and style in mind when writing but there are some songs which can be a success in more than one genre. I uploaded this song yesterday and I was challenged (?) what would this sound like as a...

The first use of the new Suno v4. Excited to try this as sound quality is claimed to be better. Difficult to tell on this track, although I prompted for the backing to be minimalistic. It starts off very good but depending on your sound system you may think differently. The AI has chosen to include clapping rather than bass or drums, etc. This can be heard clearly by using headphones or external s...

More new features in Suno. This has been remastered to the sound quality of the newly available Suno v4.0 This was really a test of this feature and an old lyric circa late 1960's. I also used the personas feature, Orion Vox was the one I chose here. Happy with the separation and clarity of the voice but not sure about the instrumentation, although I have no issues with it here.

And now for something completely different (thanks, Monty Python) This track is a poem (see below), written by myself in a brief period where I forsook songs for poetry. Something which I did to widen the scope and subjects I was writing about. Anyway, I asked Suno for something, musical with Irish roots, and suitable to remember a dear old lady who had recently passed away. I was presented with t...

One of the problems I have with Suno that it provides so many variations of genre and style that I cannot choose from. Yes there are songs which simply don't meet my expectations. Maybe not what I expected or nor sifficiently like my original idea. I only generated one iteration of this track (that meant two - often - dissimilar) variations. This marginally got my vote, although the duet came a ve...

Just reviewing the ealier tracks with Suno and came across this song. I remember writing this whilst waitin in the car for my wife who was shopping. When I write lyrics, I usually sing them over to myself to get the verses so that their lyrics scan the same. I also helps me to, in return. to write the lyrics and develop ideas. This provides a lyric with what is called Prosody. And the melody often...

After explaing about the new Suno feature, "persona" and uploading a track that failed to live up to expectation (see "Lost In Silence), I was able to generate a track which created a duet (alternating male/female vocals) which satisfied me.and I felt worked, to a point. Although I used tags to identify which sections/lines were sung by the "duetists" or both, the AI still randomised them to a cer...

A failed experiment with the new Suno feature. The "persona" was saved from a song which was sung by a duet (alternating male and female voices) I did not think that it would allow me to get a duet, random ocurrence only in my experience with Suno. I was right, the use of a persona produced a female vocal only. However, I found I liked this song and the arrangement. I don't know if I am getting in...