MusiCrew - Online Jam Session App

There would be nothing better for a guitarist on a Saturday afternoon than to pick up his six-string and play a few sets with his friends. Unfortunately, Steve is new in town.  After mastering his new favorite 80’s song, Steve has no one to play it with. If he could just connect up with other musicians that also love Men At Work, he could fully realize his dream.

MusiCrew, the newest app from ETI, will bring these artists together. Steve the guitarist starts a group called “Who Can it Be Now”.  He selects the kind of artists he needs; Bass guitar, Drummer, Australian Singer, and a little Saxophone.  There are millions of artist registered with MusiCrew and they all have a rating that has been assigned be other MusiCrew artists. Steve sets the rating level he requires and then he opens his group up to anyone in the world to join. He gets Mark, a buddy from college, to drum. Raindrop, a lady from Seattle, signs up to play Bass. Some Australian, Colin Hay, says he’s great at signing MAW songs. Although a little odd, there is a mouse saxophone player that is highly rated, so she’s in too. At the scheduled time, they log onto the “Who Can It Be Now” group site and record. Everyone does great. MusiCrew sends the recording to the players and makes it available for the thousands of Steve’s followers to download.  (Alright they were all Colin’s followers.)

 

This is a full $1Million Idea. The money would be raised through music downloads and artist fees. It could easily break off into the Professional artists running workshops. Imagine all the people that would sign up to play guitar or sing with Maroon 5. The next level purchase would offer editing software.

Obviously there are a several technical issues.

·         Would network connection lag times throw off the timing?

·         What would be the Copyright issues?

·         Would it require a server the size of a warehouse?

Every musician would join and every musician’s friend would buy the recordings. I’m not kidding here, this is the next step in social networking. Although I do not play music, even I would learn the harmonica to play “Soul Man” with Dan Aykroyd. Which artist would you pay to play with?

 

Until Next Time, Keep Thinking!

Eric the Inventor