Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the difference between reverb and Dverb.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I have decided that I am going to relearn how to play the guitar.

So I have this guitar that sits behind me on all of my meetings and all of my podcast recordings.

And so people are often like, oh, that's cool.

Do you play guitar?

What's your favorite song? Do you know Time of your life by Green Day? Like all this stuff. And the answer is I don't

really play. I used to. I played a lot when I was a kid for a long time. I was actually pretty

good at it. But so I just quit.

Bad choice in retrospect, but like I was 12. What are you going to do? But now I have this guitar

and I've decided I'm going to remember how to play it. So I got this app, musician, that people

really recommend and I really like so far. It just sits here on the iPad and it tells me what to

play and it actually uses the microphone to see just sits here on the iPad and it tells me what to play,

and it actually uses the microphone to see if I'm playing it correctly and gives you this

sort of dynamic feedback as you go. It's not as good as having like a person to teach me,

but I can do it in my basement. So I'm calling it a victory. So far, I have learned basically

that this is a C chord and not much else. But you know, it's progress.

We're doing it one day at a time. Anyway, that is not what we're here to talk about. This is the

second episode in our miniseries all about the future of music. Last week, we talked to Jack

Coim about track star and basically music content and how we as

fans discover new music and how musicians discover new fans and be in the world.

This week, we're talking about a technology that I think you could argue is the single most

important thing that has happened to music in the last two decades.

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