It’s better to see heuristic search as an order of enumeration, always exhaustive, but prioritizing specific elements, perhaps those representative of the elements in some simplified representation. When you need to choose from 100 options, it’s better to let your intuition do the prioritization, to refine whatever heuristic you are following consciously, instead of starting from 1 up. And conversely, it’s important to train intuition to implement good prioritization heuristics, even if you know an explicit algorithm guaranteed to lead to solution.
I think the method you describe would indeed be superior to pure brute force. In my case, my intuition was guiding my fingers a lot I’m sure. I also did prioritize certain elements (e.g. I didn’t try chords which I knew wouldn’t fit the style). The brute force came in at the level of searching through elements that were generated by my intuition and/or consciously prioritized. My intuition was getting trained in the process. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like I was doing exactly what you describe.
It’s better to see heuristic search as an order of enumeration, always exhaustive, but prioritizing specific elements, perhaps those representative of the elements in some simplified representation. When you need to choose from 100 options, it’s better to let your intuition do the prioritization, to refine whatever heuristic you are following consciously, instead of starting from 1 up. And conversely, it’s important to train intuition to implement good prioritization heuristics, even if you know an explicit algorithm guaranteed to lead to solution.
I think the method you describe would indeed be superior to pure brute force. In my case, my intuition was guiding my fingers a lot I’m sure. I also did prioritize certain elements (e.g. I didn’t try chords which I knew wouldn’t fit the style). The brute force came in at the level of searching through elements that were generated by my intuition and/or consciously prioritized. My intuition was getting trained in the process. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like I was doing exactly what you describe.