Hello there, nice people! I'm new on here, also not an English-speaker, hope I'm not breaking any rules of the forum (and of grammar, for that matter :).
Started music college 2 years ago, don't have any previous *advanced* music training. Major — vocals (jazz, pop); + I got piano 101, music literature, arrangement, music theory, solfeggio, the usual. However, my real desire is to write orchestral music, like Tchaikowsky... but with lyrics.
Right now I'm struggling with basic problems — bad sightreading, bad understanding of instrumentation, rhythm, difficult notation, of theory, not that great of an ear. Not being able to play any of the instruments properly (I've just taken up violin and cello, can play guitar — poorly). But I'm working on all of it. My trouble is mostly with instrumentation and orchestration.
I found a way that I would prefer to practice them — via Berlioz's famous Treatise.
I read chapters, took notes and analysed the perfect examples that Hector'd put there. Then I asked chatgpt/deepseek/grok to come up with musescore exercises for me to better understand each of the topics, so that I could get used to actual notes, rhythms, harmonies, not just DAWs. Then I realised AI can't read or hear notes properly... In any format. It just fantasises about what key, tempo it could be, but doesn't really see musescore, pdf, jpg or mp3. In my turn, I can't rely on my own perception of the "works" (yeah, like 8 bars in pizz. for strings).
So, do you have suggestions as to how I can comfortably carry on studying with that great book? Maybe a better AI thing? Or a format I hadn't thought of? Maybe hints on how I can review/check my own practice "through the eyes of a pro", some solid points?
Anyway, I really don't want to bother people that are actually good at composing with my extra-amateur 8-bar exercices, I liked the idea of anonymity with that AI thing... Too bad that it doesn't have ears or eyes, too!
Thanks for the attention, have a great day!