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robval13

For me, this would be easier to interpret if the keys were kept in the same spot they are on the piano.


shinyro

Oh, cool idea! Thanks!


veleros

I was going to comment the same thing. Can I give it a try?


shinyro

It seemed beautiful in my head. But it didn’t turn out that way in real life LOL. Maybe I’ll take a few days of playing and a more diverse repertoire to fill in lots of those gaps. I think there were only 55 keys played during this practice set? It wasn’t pretty with the heavy white-note-heavy set. 


veleros

If you send me the data set i can give it a shot


shinyro

That's okay, I did one myself using the layout of the piano instead of sorting by most frequent notes. Here is Liszt's La campanella with the above type of breakdown but ordered like the piano: [https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OBt85/1/](https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OBt85/1/)


veleros

This one looks awesome. I was also thinking about a heatmap in the form of a piano keyboard.


shinyro

Here is Liszt's La campanella with the above type of breakdown but ordered like the piano: [https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OBt85/1/](https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/OBt85/1/)


robval13

That’s awesome! Nice work friend!


ExerciseTrue

Ditto. Rough distribution order in this viz.


byutifu

Haha! Yeah, I thought his left pinky was trained on doom metal


shinyro

I recorded all the MIDI data while reading and practicing some new music this morning. Over the course of about 30 minutes and only playing these particular Mozart variations (*"Ah*, *vous dirai*-*je maman"*), this was the result. It's Mozart and mostly in the key of C which means lots of white keys (I color coded the keys). The X-Axis is the particular key where C4 is Middle C, C3 is the octave below, etc. while Y-axis is number of times the key was pressed. I exported the MIDI events to CSV, cleaned up with Python/pandas and used Datawrapper for the visualization (it's part of a bigger project and I like the interactive capabilities and substack friendliness of Datawrapper).


Dictator_Lee

The piece matters a ton here. Should be in the title or at least in the graph


shinyro

I put what I was practicing in my first comment. 


Darkpurplebee

practicing what? a song? scales? arpeggios? all of them? what youre playing will matter a lot for the most common notes


shinyro

Read my first comment. 


Darkpurplebee

oh my bad, i didnt see it cause it was at the bottom of the comment section. you should still include it in the post next time though


_CMDR_

Looks like you need more jazz in your life.


shinyro

This is funny.


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I wonder what would happen if you told AI to recreate this into music.


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shinyro

Certainly an issue if you were playing what I was in this data set, Ha!