re. "Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?" I'm very much interested in exploring its use to generate graded sight-reading material. My own instrument is classical guitar and we're not the best sight-readers[1]... it would be nice to have daily sight-reading exercises generated for practice, with midi. I could donate the use of a QEMU/KVM server instance for working on a project of that sort.
[1] Guitarist John Williams: "Another thing I’ve noticed in master classes, is that players will come on and play the most difficult solo works from memory, and yet if you give them a part to play in one of the easier Haydn String Quartets, as I often do, they’re lost in no time, and have a very poor sense of ensemble or timing. Guitarists are among the worst sight-readers I’ve come across. Julian Bream and I are both dead average sight-readers by orchestral standards, but among guitarists, we are [considered] outstanding! " https://guitarteacher.com.au/interview/john-williams-interview/ On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 18:44, Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with > GPT4 to compose simple music in other text based music formats. I've had > limited success getting it to output Lilypond code. It is able to correctly > structure the code with a score block, nested contexts, and appropriately > named variables, and bar checks at the end of each measure. It seems to > struggle to create rhythms that fit within the time signature beyond > extremely simple cases. It also seems to struggle a lot to understand what > octave pitches will be in when using relative mode. > > It also seems to have a lot of trouble keeping track of the relationship > between notes entered in different simultaneous expressions. Just asking it > to repeat back which notes appear in each voice on each beat, GPT4 > frequently gives stubbornly incorrect answers about the music it generated. > This makes it very difficult to improve its output by giving feedback. > > I'm curious whether anybody else has tried playing with this. I have to > imagine that GPT4 has the potential to produce higher quality Lilypond > output, given some of the other impressive things it can do. Perhaps it > needs to be provided with a large volume of musical repertoire in Lilypond > format. > -- https://blackstock.media
