And what about patterns we really use?
Here's what can happen to the data if you lose all sense of when enough is enough.
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All this tinkering with fractal patterns in music leaves one question unanswered: "If you just want to improvise, why bother with lead sheets anyway?" "Because I said so!" is the usual answer. Click here if you wonder why in the world such an answer might ever be deemed to be essentially correct.