Nice example! It indeed sounds interesting and a little bit "mysterious"?Timaeus wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 2:18 am I'm using the same melodic ideas, in both sections, but the bass progression and chord progression feel like... a different mode? All I know aside from that is it sounds cool, and that I managed that happy accident without successfully analyzing what I did afterwards because of the musical intuition I gained from writing for 11 years, but without sufficient music theory knowledge.
I can imagine how something like that happens. For me, this sometimes even starts with a mistake - copying some loop somewhere it wasn't originally meant to be, for example.
However, there seems to be a limit to this. Do a few unexpected / unfamiliar things and it becomes interesting. Do too much of it, and people will find it annoying and can't relate to it as music anymore. But that's a really interesting part of music. In the end, it's a huge collection of patterns and pattern restrictions (genres) and you can really play around and stretch some of those. A few genius people even create new patterns (which isn't possible if you stick to already established ones)