Artificial Intelligence Joshua Rogers Artificial Intelligence Joshua Rogers

Can AI make me a Better Guitarist?

AI and Classical Guitar. Can we leverage the immense power of AI to get faster better results?

“I am inevitable.” - Thanos

AI is slowly but surely being used in more and more ways. But can we leverage it to be better on the guitar?

Read on to discover how it could help you.

How I use AI to help me

I’m not going to write a boring historical account of how AI came to be and whether or not in the future it’s going to become Skynet/Cyberdyne Systems 2.0. Rather, I’d just like to let you know how I use and how you can leverage its power to help you out in ways you may not have thought of.

If you’re against AI I get it. It’s a little bit like back in the day when we were warned about entering our credit card details online when paying for something. I’m old enough to remember all of the fear mongering (not unfounded back then) of credit card details being stolen and your bank balance being zeroed if you purchased something online. Even now it can still happen but most of us have grown used it and now we enter our credit card details with very little thought or concern about that happening.

Creation

I recently created a classical guitar AI video of Francisco Tárrega performing Gran Vals at the Palau de Musica. I knew it would be controversial and that some would like it, some would be ‘meh’, and others would hate it. I was right. After posting it on the NBN Guitar YouTube channel, and several Meta groups it seemed I was right on the money.

The first comment on Meta was ‘Why?’. I replied ‘Why not?’ I know one shouldn’t answer a question with a question but hey it’s the internet and rules are different.

I created it as a project to help me learn a bit more about AI image and video creation.

For me AI is a great tool that is hugely limited in some areas yet immensely powerful in others.

Before I carry on, watch the video below:

So, how can YOU use it to get better?

  • create a practice schedule based around your daily life

  • suggest pieces and repertoire based on your level and desires

  • track your progress by creating a dedicated practice folder

Check out this prompt I put into ChatGPT for a beginner classical guitarist looking for a good practice routine and a few new pieces to add to their repertoire:

“Please create a dedicated weekly practice schedule for me. I'm a beginner classical guitarist that knows basic chords and picking, along with a couple of simple pieces by Giuliani, Sor, and Sagreras. I have about 30 minutes to practice during weekdays and 60 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays. I can only practice after 8PM because the rest of my day is quite full. I'd love to be able to add two new pieces each month. Also, please give me some tips on how to improve my memorisation and play scales progressively faster.”

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI Tools) that I use

I use a few different tools to help me with many tasks here at NBN Guitar. I’ll list them below and how I use them:

  • ChatGPT - this is easily the AI I use the most to help me with guitar practice, creating classical guitar blog ideas, and much more.

  • Leonardo AI - used to create images and videos

  • Opus Clip - creates shorts video clips, resizes videos, and makes CC transcripts

  • Vimeo AI - helps me to edit videos, add translations in different languages to NBN Guitar videos (working on adding French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, and Spanish subtitles to our most popular lessons)

 

What I’m not going to do…

Is sit here and tell you that AI is the future of classical guitar and that you have to use it or you’re going to be left behind. Not at all. If anything, we all know that classical guitar was here well before AI…but AI can be used as a helpful tool to give you foundations or ideas upon which you can build. Even if you used a prompt like the one above and hate what it pops out it may still give you a direction or a path that you maybe hadn’t thought of before. A lot of what ChatGPT can produce is based upon how detailed your prompts are.

I look at AI as a friend to help me when I’m stuck, or an expert that can give me ideas that I can then further refine using different research and my own real life experience. We’ve even added an AI Chatbot to the NBN Guitar website lovingly called ‘Segovia’…🤣😂

 

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  • 300+ step-by-step video lessons with every note laid out — no guesswork.

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  • Interactive quizzes & progress tracking to keep you motivated.

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Let your fingers fly! - Josh

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