Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?

Post by jenkstom » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

scarecrowbob wrote: post #7

Not a criticism of reality or the question, but an unrelated observation: I find it super interesting that were at a point in time where we would find it faster to ask a computer to randomly generate a short sequence of notes rather than just, like, writing them out. This is a good example of a class of problem where it would be so much easier for me to describe any of several workflows: punch it into Dorico directly…

I would like to point out that none of your options are free... the closest would be to print staff paper on paper and hand write the notes. Which a lot of people won't like much because they don't have the skills for even that.

Post by hombre_fatal » Wed, Aug 09, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

pseudocomposer wrote: post #16

hombre_fatal wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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…

> 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.

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