Empirical Study of Pop and Jazz Mix Ratios for Genre-Adaptive Chord Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04998v1
• Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 14:59:37 GMT
• Title: Empirical Study of Pop and Jazz Mix Ratios for Genre-Adaptive Chord Generation
• Abstract summary: Chord progression generation is practically important but understudied.<n>This paper treats chord generation as a standalone task and addresses a question that arises whenever such a model is adapted across genres.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Chord progression generation is practically important but understudied. Most large-scale symbolic music systems target melody, multi-track arrangement, or audio synthesis, and chord-only models tend to be relegated to conditioning components inside larger pipelines. This paper treats chord generation as a standalone task and addresses a question that arises whenever such a model is adapted across genres: how much old-domain data must be retained during fine-tuning to acquire a new domain without forgetting the old? I study jazz fine-tuning starting from a pop-pretrained 25M-parameter Music Transformer (84.24% top-1 chord accuracy on a held-out pop test set). The available jazz corpus is an order of magnitude smaller than the pop corpus, so every fine-tune run uses all 1,513 jazz training sequences. The swept variable is the volume of pop "rehearsal" data mixed alongside, taking values in {0, 1K, 2.5K, 5K, 10K}. Every fine-tuned model gains 7 to 9 points of jazz top-1. Pop accuracy collapses by 2.14 points under jazz-only fine-tuning, recovers to baseline at approximately 2.5K rehearsal samples (1.65x the jazz volume), and saturates beyond that point. A complementary observation: the metric-best run (F3, 2.5K mix) is not always the perceptually preferred one. The pop-leaning (10K) and jazz-leaning (1K) endpoints carry more committed stylistic identities that the author more often selects as finished output in informal listening. I discuss what this suggests for music co-creation tools but make no perceptual claim, since no formal listening study has been conducted. All six checkpoints are released on the HuggingFace Hub at https://huggingface.co/PearlLeeStudio.

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