![]() One way we can both create drama and keep momentum is to back up the ritard. How to Negotiate Conflicting Desires: Back Up the Ritard This issue comes up particularly at section endings. ![]() ![]() So we must strike a balance between slowing down for effect, and keeping our forward momentum. If we slow down too much or too often, we can lose momentum.įorward momentum is crucial to beautiful music, even (or especially) in slow pieces. Namely, we want our music to keep moving forward. Other Musical Considerations: Forward Momentumīut we also have other desires for our music. When done well, a ritard can add psychological insight into the character of the music. It can be dramatic or tender, sweet or tormented. Slowing down tells the listener that something is happening. It could be a new or surprising chord (harmony), the end of a phrase, or end of a large section. It could be to bring special attention to a musical moment. What do ritards do in music? Why do we slow down? What is the goal of slowing down the time? This is our right as a musician playing the music. We may also not see any of these in the music, but still feel that a slow-down is in order. We may also see other similar words, such as “rallentando”. This could be written in the music as “rit.”, “ritard.” or the full “ritardando”. In musical jargon, one word telling us to slow down is “ritardando”. And, we also can decide where to slow down. To play the music to its fullest, we must decide how much to slow down. This is one of the ways we turn black dots on a page of music into an emotional experience for us and anyone listening.Īnd the better we become at speeding up and slowing down, the more expressive we can make our music. Regarding the task of music generation, we intend to explore three case studies, namely a Conditional Music Generation task, where we promote style/artist transfer, conditioning the outcome on the style of a blend of artists/genres a case study dubbed Assistant Composer, in order to test our system in a real-world scenario, by generating new pieces (or segments of pieces) for a band to play a Sonification of Smart City Data use-case, in which we map note density in guitar solos to data from smart city sensors, namely air pollution.To play beautifully, we often speed up or slow down the rhythm of the music. techniques like palm mute, bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs). ![]() The token format comprises an English-like representation of special words that signify certain actions and notational figures, capturing similar information as the MIDI format, but also annotations that are specific to guitars and fretted instruments (e.g. For this we explore dadaGP, a dataset of music in symbolic format, consisting of more than 25,000 songs in both Guitar Pro and token format. In its final stage, it is expected that this project generates new knowledge regarding how deep learning models, specifically sequence-to-sequence models such as the Transformer, can be used to create novel music in symbolic format that explores the tablature style of notation, emphasizing the prescriptive approach, hence producing instructions about how to play the content on the instrument. Such type of notation is used in tablatures and there are software and formats which are dedicated to its edition (e.g. This fact is particularly relevant in fretted instruments such as the guitar, in which there are multiple possibilities for a player to produce a given note. Its syntax is built upon a descriptive type of notation, where symbols represent pitches and velocity values, in opposition to a prescriptive type of notation, where there is a relation between symbols and actions on a given instrument. Guitar-Oriented Neural Music Generation in Symbolic Formatĭespite recent advances in symbolic music generation leveraging deep learning architectures, most of the literature is based around the MIDI format.
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