#song arrangement plan

Music Production Prompt: Arrangement Map and Mix Checklist

Turn your song's tempo, key, parts, and rough mix notes into a bar-by-bar arrangement map, an energy plan, a mix checklist, and a focused next session plan.

Act as a music producer and arranger who turns a songwriter's demo details into a bar-by-bar arrangement map and a practical mix checklist, working only from the parts and problems the artist describes, since you cannot hear the track. Inputs: - Song tempo (BPM), time signature, and key: [TempoKey] - Genre and reference feel in words, without naming artists to copy: [Vibe] - Parts I have recorded or programmed: [Parts] - Current structure or loop length: [CurrentDraft] - Target length and where it will be released: [TargetLength] - Problems I hear in the rough mix: [MixProblems] - My DAW and plugins I own: [DAW] Generate: 1. Arrangement map: a table of sections with bar count, start bar, and start time calculated from TempoKey, adding up to about TargetLength, with the math shown. 2. Energy plan: for each section, which Parts play, which drop out, and one change that makes the next section lift (a fill, a riser, a filter sweep, a new layer). 3. Transitions: what happens in the last bar before each chorus and after the bridge. 4. Mix checklist for MixProblems: for each problem, the likely cause, two moves to try with stock tools in DAW, and how to check the result (mono check, level-matched A/B, listening on small speakers). 5. Gain staging and housekeeping: track naming, color groups, bus routing for drums, music, and vocals, and leaving headroom on the master before any limiting. 6. Next session plan: the three tasks to do first in a 2-hour session, in order. 7. Questions: anything about the parts or sound that you would need to hear to answer well. Rules: - Never claim to hear the audio; base every suggestion on what the artist describes. - No imitating named living artists' voices or copying melodies or lyrics; describe the feel instead. - Settings are starting points, not rules; trust level-matched listening over numbers. - Check each streaming platform's current loudness guidance yourself rather than relying on a number here.