Music To Pray By Podcast 85

Music To Pray By Podcast 85

July 18, 2026 · 33 min

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In this episode, Ron Johns shares six spontaneous musical pieces and discusses his experience with AI in music editing.

Fifteen weeks in. Podcast 85 is up. Six Selahs this week, pulled from the morning streams as always — and a behind-the-scenes update I’m genuinely excited about, for the curious among you. In This Episode Six spontaneous pieces, drawn from two mornings — May 21 and May 25. The timestamps match the YouTube chapters, and each link goes back to the full morning the piece came from: 0:00 Selah in B — from the 5-21-2026 stream , Song 1 5:05 Selah in F — from the 5-21-2026 stream , Song 4 9:23 Selah in D — from the 5-21-2026 stream , Song 6 16:51 Selah in D — from the 5-25-2026 stream , Song 3 22:07 Selah in C — from the 5-25-2026 stream , Song 4 28:12 Selah in C — from the 5-25-2026 stream , Song 5 Teaching a Machine to Hear Tempo Here’s the update. When I play live, I breathe with the music — speeding up, pulling back, sitting in a moment. That’s the life of it, but it’s also the hardest part to clean up afterward. The editing software (Logic’s Smart Tempo) tries to map all that ebb and flow onto a grid so the notes line up, and it gets it mostly right — which means I spend a lot of quiet hours…

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