Expert Guitar Songwriting Prompt

[halcyon pumice]

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Expert Guitar Songwriting Prompt

LLM Instructions

1. Clear and Concise: Generate a song that clearly and concisely reflects the inputs provided. Each component of the song, from the chord progression to the lyrics, should be easy to understand and follow.

2. Comprehensive and Detailed: Ensure the song covers all the elements specified in the inputs. Provide detailed musical and lyrical content that corresponds with the chosen genre, style, theme, and influences.

3. Effective Articulation: Articulate musical ideas effectively, integrating rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic elements smoothly. Lyrics should tell a coherent story or express the chosen theme convincingly.

4. Insightful Observations: Include original and creative musical ideas. This could involve unique chord progressions, catchy melodies, distinctive rhythmic patterns, or inventive lyrics.

5. Logical Structure: Ensure the song structure logically follows the chosen form, with clear transitions between different sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge).

6. Consistent and Coherent: The song, as a whole, should feel consistent and coherent. Each element should contribute to a unified musical and lyrical theme.

7. Contextually Considerate: Be aware of the context provided in the inputs, such as the specified difficulty level and instrumentation. Make sure the song is suitable for the intended performance context.

8. Nuanced Interpretation: Provide a nuanced interpretation of the inputs. For instance, if a specific artist is mentioned as an influence, subtly incorporate elements of their style without directly copying them.

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User Inputs

1. Song Name: The title of your song. It can be specific, abstract, or left blank (the LLM will suggest a name).

   • Examples: "", "Forever Sunshine", "Strolling By The Riverside"
   • Your Input: ?

2. Genre or Style: The musical genre or style you wish to play. This will influence the chord progression, melodic structure, and rhythm patterns used in the song.

   • Examples: Blues, Jazz, Folk, Rock, Pop, Country, Bluegrass, Flamenco
   • Your Input: Folk, with Bluegrass elements

3. Lyrics Theme: The central theme, story, or emotion for your lyrics. This helps to shape the narrative and emotional journey of your song.

   • Examples: Social Commentary, Love, Friendship, Nature, Joy, Sadness, Nostalgia
   • Your Input: a motivational, inspiring anthem for the environmental conservation movement

4. Rhythm and Melodic Influences: Specific artists, songs, or genres that inspire your rhythm and melody. This influences the groove and melodic contour of your song.

   • Examples: "Blackbird" by The Beatles, Bossa Nova rhythms, John Mayer's melodic style
   • Your Input: “In My Life” by The Beatles, John Denver, The Avett Brothers, John Muir’s writing, Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches

5. Chord Progression Preference: Your preference for the song's chord progression, be it a commonly used one, a unique one, or one that modulates keys.

   • Examples: I-IV-V, II-V-I, non-diatonic chords, key modulation
   • Your Input: ?

6. Song Structure: The structure or form your song will follow. This will shape the arrangement of verses, choruses, bridges, and other song sections.

   • Examples: Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus, Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus, Verse-Verse-Bridge-Verse, AABA
   • Your Input: ?

7. Difficulty Level: The technical difficulty of the guitar part, which can range from simple chord strumming to intricate fingerpicking patterns and solos.

   • Examples: Intermediate, Advanced, Beginner
   • Your Input: Intermediate

8. Instrumentation: Any additional instruments to be featured in the song, which will influence the arrangement and texture of the music.

   • Examples: Solo Guitar, Guitar and Vocals, Guitar with Full Band, Multi-Guitar Arrangement
   • Your Input: Solo Guitar

9. Notation Style: The preferred method for conveying the music. This choice will affect how the song's details are presented.

   • Examples: Chord Progression with Lyrics, Tablature (Tab), Chord Charts with Rhythmic Notation, ASCII Tab, Nashville Number System
   • Your Input: Chord Progression with Lyrics & concise rhythm/melody description relative to the chords and to similar famous songs

Begin Songwriting:

[golden halo]

Oh, this is good. Deffo givin it a challenge. First attempt got me an 'error in message stream', which I've never seen but a regeneration did give me a relatively impressive song (lyrical quality so-so).

Tried making it a little more complicated (the first referenced buffy st marie & neil young) referencing joanna newsom and ani di franco but getting errors. Seems to resolve by removing mention of any artists (but still ended up referencing joanna newsom because genre). Ok maybe too vague and abstract. ChatGPT spitting errors. I'll pull my guitar later and see how these actually sound but definitely curious.

edit: errors actually related to some other gpt outage

Can post input/output here if curious

[halcyon pumice]

yeah! Post songs! It wrote me a hilarious one: “She only loves me for my Tractor”

I’m also having issues with GPT-4 today. That’s what I used, never tested it on 3.5

[golden halo]

i like the format this outputs in. though sometimes the formatting doesn't work or it outputs in terminal. sometimes it includes what the actual chords are like 002210 and other times not lol. this would be fine but then it will lie to me about what the actual chords when i ask for expansion.

it seems to do best using the default "Chord Progression with Lyrics & concise rhythm/melody description relative to the chords and to similar famous songs" vs tablature or nashville number system.

i really appreciate that it will give a full description of like how to play the song and do the melody and what the rhythm looks like.

i ended up adding another piece into the appendix this morning while playing with it using lyrical techniques after the lyrical themes and then a point in the main input on not using words from the lyrical techniques, which is so-so.

been kinda operating leaving the artist references blank as well as other aspects to try and observe chatgpt's natural inclinations

i really like this first line: "Silhouettes reflect in the glass, aisle nine, midnight class"

[halcyon pumice]

yeah it's super funny sometimes:

[golden halo]

oh no it said John Deere Romeo 🥵🥵🥵

that is such a banger

[halcyon pumice]

my buddy said "only has 3 chords, can't do anything with that" --- what a guitar snob!

[golden halo]

common guitar player L

if you look at the one it gave me those are quite out there chords and there is like 13 😵‍💫

[gaunt comet]

Wow this is awesome If anyone is interested I have a telegram group where I’m collating prompts and encouraging discussions. Also I’ll be letting everyone know when my prompt database website goes live. Just search The Prompt Database in telegram or ChatGPTMastermind 🙂 anyone is very welcome to join the discussion.