[sidedishes]

I've been doing one-hour time limit song writing challenges and in those I need to write accompaniment fast. I gotta say, this generation is a really close reduction of what I actually do -- come up with some accompaniment figure over a chord or two, then transpose it and tweak chord tones for the next measure. Maybe add a part or do something different if it's a section change. IMO this post is a great example of how to mix variation and repetition to balance interest and familiarity.

Even if the generation itself has limitations it seems like a great springboard for manual touches like dissonance tweaking, or new sections, or fills / transitions -- arguably the cool creative part after all anyway! There's a lot of repetition in music, and when writing, it's hard to decouple it from points of interest. A workflow that enables such is very exciting.

(Taking this opportunity to share my multiplayer piano roll editor: https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/ )