When first learning a solo, group of arpeggios, …, I work in small segments, basically using the same patterns in your blogs and papers. I work all the little segments, micro regions?, up into a phrase or a couple measures and capture that into a region. When I complete transcribing the solo I have a bunch regions. As I practice a solo region getting it up to speed, I will start practicing the next region, when I have that up to speed I will collapse the 2 consecutive regions into a larger region and work that larger region. But, I wish, I could keep the original smaller regions, so when I practice it the next day or much later, I can warm up in the smaller sections that need more work and then work on the collapsed sections or complete work. This would help quite a bit, I wouldn’t have to rebuild sections and rebuild the larger segments.
I was thinking how “might” this be done?
Highlight multiple consecutive regions “cmd or cmd shift” model
looping between 2 makers, This could be handy, working through the solo. I can keep moving the end marker.
I feel like everyone proposes something slightly different, and there are conflicts between the different viewpoints. The “merge regions” crowd wants to slam two (usually adjacent) regions together, but that is incompatible with the description you gave—the original regions get lost in the merge.
The “just let me overlap regions” crowd also have good points, and the idea of having “region tracks” or “region lanes” is interesting. But it introduces some UI challenges once things start to overlap. Should the user explicitly request another track of regions, or should Capo create lanes automatically as people start to drag things around? To be honest, this feels like a minefield for weird behaviour.
I do like the idea of creating regions between sets of markers, but there are some things about this approach I don’t love. First, it requires placing a marker at the end of where a region should be—that makes the marker less useful for signalling “the start of something interesting”, and it adds noise to the list of markers when you’re navigating around by marker. Also, I tend to place markers and regions differently. Markers go more precisely at the start of a note/phrase, and I place regions on the beat grid—often with some extra beats for the sake of count-in or looping smoothly.
Anyway, I’ll continue to chew on this one. Responding to this message already generated a few diagrams and scribbles in my book here, which is a start.
Thanks for the response. I am glad to hear others have similar work patterns and it’s on your radar. I was just throwing some ideas out there, I will leave it to you to brings us the solution you feel works best for Capo.
