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Now that we have a basic understanding about entropy in music, we finish off the pre-training discussion of rests by focusing on how they affect duration ratios in the database.  It turns out that rests inform us about the rhythmic structure of the tunes in the corpus.   Let’s look at the concentration of ratios in…

Before we can finish up our discussion of rests, notably their duration ratios, we need to introduce and explain entropy, as it’s a metric we will use when deciding how (or not) to use rests in our AI training.   “Entropy” puts off a lot of people, but it turns out to be highly useful in…

As a point of vocabulary, we often use “rests” and “rest events” interchangeably.  A rest event can either be a single rest, such as a quarter note rest, or a series of rests, such as a quarter note rest followed by one or more rests of any duration. If there is a note between two…

We wrap up the discussion on Heaps Law this week by summarizing what we’ve learned so far and making a final decision for what definition of “word” we use when we get around to training the AI model.  This table summarizes all the Heaps Curve analyses performed: The first two rows refer to human natural…