Chapter 6: Data Preparation for Training

1. MIDI is not a text format, so it is harder to use and modify, but it is extremely common. MusicXML is rather rare and cumbersome but has the advantage of being in text format. ABCNotation is also rather rare, but has the advantage of being in text format and closer to sheet music.
2. Use the code from chapter_06_example_08.py, and change the program=43 in the extraction.
3. There are 1,116 rock songs in LMD and 3,138 songs for jazz, blues, and country. Refer to chapter_06_example_02.py and chapter_06_example_03.py to see how to make statistics with genre information.
4. Use the RepeatSequence class in melody_rnn_pipeline_example.py.
5. Use the code from chapter_06_example_09.py. Yes, we can train a quantized model with it since the data preparation pipeline quantizes the input.
6. For small datasets, data augmentation plays an essential role in creating...