Would adding musical notations to LLMs training data allow it to create music since notations are a lot like normal languages? Or does it do so already?

  • micheal65536@lemmy.micheal65536.duckdns.org
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    1 year ago

    I tried getting it to write out a simple melody using MIDI note numbers once. I didn’t think of asking it for LilyPond format, I couldn’t think of a text-based format for music notation at the time.

    It was able to produce a mostly accurate output for a few popular children’s songs. It was also able to “improvise” a short blues riff (mostly keeping to the correct scale, and showing some awareness of/reference to common blues themes), and write an “answer” phrase (which was suitable and made musical sense) to a prompt phrase that I provided.