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0 pointshombre_fatal2y ago0 comments

You could create your own music by hand, but presumably someone wants to generate music because they want to target a specific skill like playing on the fly rather than playing something they just spent 15min writing.

Just like you might want to practice reading a foreign language with paragraphs you haven’t seen before, not the paragraphs you just wrote yourself. Certainly a useful skill to be able to write yourself, but not necessarily the skill you want to practice every time you want to practice reading.

I don’t see the problem.

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pseudocomposer2y ago

So, as someone who made a living for a time with piano sightreading skills… there’s already a near-endless supply of free sheet music to practice sightreading with. I guess you could use it as an input for some LLM and practice against its outputs… but just… why? Part of the benefit of practicing sightreading (in a non-paid context) is that you’re playing material that you might have to “sightread” for money (quoted here because yes, it may be the second or third time you’ve seen it… sightreading vs. memorizing a piece is a whole spectrum, but customers only really care if you can play things well). I guess, there could be a market for sightreading LLM-generated music (“write me Chopin lines but with Monk chord progressions”)… at a cocktail party… for an audience that was into that? This seems really unnatural and unlikely to me though.

Raidion2y ago

Amateur guitar player here, I feel like sometimes I don't know if my fingers have gotten the concept or if I've just learned a difficult passage by rote.

I'd love to have something that generates the same right hand picking pattern with a different left hand.

Also, I think there are licks that you have to be very precise with fingering or picking pattern. It would be cool to generate those.

pseudocomposer2y ago

For the latter, I’m working on something like this with my app BeatScratch. (Though I’m currently picking it back up and updating to Dart 3 after a hiatus to work on what will be its new backend in place of Reddit…) The notation format is a bit limited but does have a novel way of choosing enharmonics (like F# vs. Gb) to maximize readability. https://beatscratch.io

hombre_fatalOP2y ago

> I guess you could use it as an input for some LLM and practice against its outputs… but just… why?

The same reason you might want to use an LLM to generate language or a meal plan or anything really: it's interactive and you can customize it arbitrarily on the fly instead of browsing pages of content until something kinda lines up with what you want over and over again.

spywaregorilla2y ago

Is there free sheet music for popular music like there are for guitar tabs? I've tried to find this in the past but not been able.

pseudocomposer2y ago

MuseScore is a good source! But there is absolutely an art (with deeply mathematical influences) to producing pleasant-to-read sheet music. You’re better off paying for even mediocre songbooks, say Hal-Leonard or Alfred press, for musicians or even just genres you like, than sticking purely to free sources. For $5-20 a book (of say, 8-20 songs) I would argue it’s better to pay for it.

ioisar2y ago

Thesession.org, imslp.org

kevinmchugh2y ago

it's a series of notes with the same mathematical relationship to one another. It's like the times tables, you should memorize them and writing them down is another mode to help memorization

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pseudocomposer2y ago

Raidion2y ago

Amateur guitar player here, I feel like sometimes I don't know if my fingers have gotten the concept or if I've just learned a difficult passage by rote.

I'd love to have something that generates the same right hand picking pattern with a different left hand.

Also, I think there are licks that you have to be very precise with fingering or picking pattern. It would be cool to generate those.

pseudocomposer2y ago

hombre_fatalOP2y ago

> I guess you could use it as an input for some LLM and practice against its outputs… but just… why?

spywaregorilla2y ago

Is there free sheet music for popular music like there are for guitar tabs? I've tried to find this in the past but not been able.

pseudocomposer2y ago

ioisar2y ago

Thesession.org, imslp.org

kevinmchugh2y ago

it's a series of notes with the same mathematical relationship to one another. It's like the times tables, you should memorize them and writing them down is another mode to help memorization

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