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About String 37
What?
The 37th String
March 2016 — In Game 2 of the historic match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol, the AI made Move 37—a play so unexpected, so seemingly illogical, that commentators thought it was a mistake. It wasn't.
Move 37 was the moment artificial intelligence transcended calculation and touched creativity. It was the moment AI stopped being a tool and became a collaborator. A teacher. A mirror reflecting possibilities we couldn't see on our own.
String37 is named in honor of that breakthrough.
A guitar has six strings (or up to nine these days). But String 37 represents the invisible string—the synthesis of Personal Intelligence (human intuition, creativity, musicality) and Artificial Intelligence (adaptive feedback, pattern recognition, real-time guidance).
It's the string you can't see:
Your musical intuition sharpened through deliberate practice
The neural pathways carved through repetition and reflection
The breakthrough moments when practice becomes artistry
Who?
Built By a Perpetual Student
I'm not a touring musician nor a Berklee professor. I'm a hobbyist guitarist and tech obsessive with 3 kids who got tired of (a) performativity on social media; (b) click bait guitar practice systems, catering to the algorithms; and (c) noodling in the dark with no compounding result.
After years of running scales without improving, learning songs without understanding them, and "practicing" without actually getting better, I realized the problem wasn't talent; nor was it time—it was incompressible complexity pretending to be simple.
Guitar improvisation isn't a checklist. It's a high-dimensional skill that requires:
Pattern recognition across multiple contexts
Real-time decision-making under creative pressure
Muscle memory coupled with musical intuition
Thousands of micro-adjustments that no YouTube tutorial can capture
So I'm now building what I needed then and need now: an approach that respects the irreducible complexity of musicianship while leveraging AI to compress time-to-mastery, not the skill itself.
String37 is my lab. My workshop. My rebellion against the "learn guitar in 30 days" industrial complex.
If you're a tinkerer, a systems thinker, or someone who wants to understand why practice works—not just follow a routine—you're in the right place.
We're not compressing the journey. We're optimizing it.