I’m unsure whether you were using brute force as a hack to spur your musical imagination and create a good song or whether it was intended to isolate parts of composition you wanted to become more proficient in. Was the goal to create individual good songs or create a better understanding of music to apply later to a non-brute force style? It seems the brute force style is clearly wrongheaded as far as creating fully developed music, but you probably knew that going in (and it does serve as a good example of the null heuristic).
If it was instead a method to better learn music theory, did it work?
A little bit of everything you mention. Consciously, I just wanted to write something I liked. Yet using brute force did teach me compositional skills I was able to try later. I got a better sense of which chords would proceed from others. This let me reduce the search space in the future. Unfortunately, it also made my compositions have a mood that was too similar, because I was re-using the same chord patterns.
In the end, brute force gave me empirical knowledge of interesting chord structures, but that didn’t fix my struggles with melody and rhythm.
I’m unsure whether you were using brute force as a hack to spur your musical imagination and create a good song or whether it was intended to isolate parts of composition you wanted to become more proficient in. Was the goal to create individual good songs or create a better understanding of music to apply later to a non-brute force style? It seems the brute force style is clearly wrongheaded as far as creating fully developed music, but you probably knew that going in (and it does serve as a good example of the null heuristic).
If it was instead a method to better learn music theory, did it work?
A little bit of everything you mention. Consciously, I just wanted to write something I liked. Yet using brute force did teach me compositional skills I was able to try later. I got a better sense of which chords would proceed from others. This let me reduce the search space in the future. Unfortunately, it also made my compositions have a mood that was too similar, because I was re-using the same chord patterns.
In the end, brute force gave me empirical knowledge of interesting chord structures, but that didn’t fix my struggles with melody and rhythm.