• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    29 days ago

    Fascinating! Because this notation is already used by another tool (and possibly more), it might not be as silly as it sounds. From the headline it sounds like some really weird API was added to something.

    Happy to see this sort of optimism in the wake of AI causing people’s programs to get bad reviews because the AI thinks they can do things they can’t.

    Thanks for the share. Maybe I’m looking too far into it, or just in one of those moods, but this really is oddly inspirational to me.

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      28 days ago

      It’s not really used by “a tool”, it’s a customary txt-format notation for guitar. People use it to learn/teach how an existing song is played, it’s not intended to actually notate music.

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        28 days ago

        People use it to learn/teach how an existing song is played, it’s not intended to actually notate music.

        Using something to communicate how to play a song certainly sounds like a form of music notation to me.

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          28 days ago

          Yes, but it generally doesn’t, for example, record length, or rests, or dynamics… It’s not intended to fully describe a piece of music, it’s really more of a diagram of a series of notes, specific to a guitar layout, that instruct you on playing a melody you’re presumed to already know the sound of.