music-strategies

name	music-strategies
description	Creative strategies for making electronic music. Use when deciding what musical content to write (melody, harmony, rhythm, structure), when blocked or out of ideas, or when an arrangement needs developing or finishing. Tool-agnostic; pair with ableton-midi to execute in Live.

Music-making strategies

Genre-neutral creative patterns. Use these to decide what to make; use the ableton-midi skill (and other ableton-* skills) to execute it in Live.

When to reach for this

• Staring at an empty project / no idea where to start.
• Have a loop but it feels static, or you're out of variation ideas.
• "Almost done" but can't arrange or end it.

Finalized patterns

File	Covers
strategies/melody.md	Contour, motives, counterpoint, hocket, sound-color, lyric rhythm
strategies/harmony.md	Keys/scales, diatonic triads & function, 7ths/extensions, voice leading, parallel harmony, harmonic rhythm, repetition
strategies/rhythm.md	3+3+2, beat programming (looseness, linear, ghost notes, top/bottom), bass+kick composite, polyrhythm, implied rhythm

In progress

TODO