MusicDevelopments • Re: Chord Rules for Jazz?

Hi Enkerli,

thanks for posting! It sounds very interesting what you want to do with RapidComposer.
As far as I know no jazz rules have been created yet. It was also my first idea to ask gpt4o, so I tried it. For some reason gpt4o did not follow the instructions about the required reply format. On the other hand gpt4o-mini did. After some editing, I created a few rules for a starting point. You may use the attached rules (which probably need LOTS of adjustments), but you may decide that it is easier to start from scratch...

Please let us know if you finished the jazz rules. I think lots of users would be interested. Feel free to e-mail me if you have questions.

Thanks!
Attila

Thanks a whole lot, Attila! I’ll try those. At first blush, they do sound much closer to what I had in mind than those built from triads.
(Also, BluGenes, thanks for the hint for file location might have searched for a while. Almost put the file in Progressions instead of ProgressionRules.)

Since I’m in no way a jazz theory expert, it might take me a while to finish those up. At the same time, even if they’re not close to what we’d get from standards, it’ll be fun to experiment.
And I’m glad these rules accept nondiatonic chords, since that’s a big part of how Jazz reharm works.

(Among the many things I need to figure out, in my Jazz-happy use of RC5, is how I can get chords to imply scales, as per chord/scale relationships. While I realize that such relationships may not be the end-all/be-all of Jazz improv, it’s the type of thing which may work really well in software.)

So, thanks again for these starting rules. They’ll help me along the way.
(Part of the reason I was convinced those already existed is that I had noticed an earlier message thanking a user for something similar. As I’m deep in RC5 learning, I can easily mix several things together.)

Statistics: Posted by Enkerli — Tue Dec 10, 2024 11:10 pm

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