If you were asking me…If you have the time, maybe create a post in the "Tips and Tricks" area on your work flow. I think it would be useful to know for sure. Maybe others have similar ideas..
Don’t really have tips & tricks, yet. The workflow to create that script and get those results was a bunch of interactions with Gemini in Google Colab (which is an online version of Jupyter notebook which, itself, is a Python-based version of environments like Mathematica). Lots of trial and error. Because, again, I’m not a coder. The key, in this kind of thing, is to bring things down to small steps that you can explain. For instance, “split this set between major and minor keys” worked instantly. Getting things to conform to what music21 expects didn’t, at least not until I understood what it did expect. So, converting to lowercase for minor keys, replace 'b' with '-'… And because music21 doesn’t handle all the chord qualities found in Jazz, it was better to split the root to convert it instead of passing the full chord symbol.
So, geeky stuff, for sure. Nothing too difficult, though.
At this point, I’m using the transitions to encode chord rules. Manually. One by one. With loose “weights”/probabilities. Not scientific in the least. In fact, I expect tweaking things to my liking to be a big part of my process, once I’m done putting all those rules together.
And it does help me to understand a number of things about Jazz Harmony. Subtle things which are hard to describe at this point. Things I notice like the significant number of nondiatonic chords (bII, #V, etc.). And just a sense that Jazz Theory doesn’t necessarily follow as much of a common pattern as one might expect.
Statistics: Posted by Enkerli — Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:34 am