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Originally Posted by rick-slo

Useful notes or just filler notes? Openness or more density? And what records better? Naturally what works better can vary tune to tune.

Hi Derek

Fills, arpeggios, and other variants should:

• Make Sense
• Sound good

I never add 'filler'.

After I've developed something elaborate for a piece, I'll scale it back for use in early passages, and hold the most elaborate using toward the end.

The 1812 Overture would sound a lot less dramatic if they fired off the cannons at the beginning.