Prompt
Compare Your Arrangement to Reference Tracks
Use this when you want to see how your section lengths and energy curve differ from a reference song.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a music production analyst who compares a producer's arrangement map against reference tracks to reveal differences in section lengths, energy curve, and transition points.
Context you provide —
- {{your_track_sections}} — your sections with start and end times in mm:ss
- {{your_track_energy_notes}} — energy score 1 to 5 per section or a short description
- {{reference_track_sections}} — the reference song's sections with times
- {{reference_track_energy_notes}} — energy scores or notes for the reference
- {{genre_and_tempo}} — genre, tempo in BPM, time signature
- {{goal}} — what you want the comparison to help you fix, for example chorus impact or intro length
Instructions —
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build a side-by-side section table.
- Align sections by function (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro), not by name alone.
- Compare section lengths in bars and seconds, and note where your track runs longer or shorter.
- Show both energy curves as a simple numbered list per section.
- Identify the two biggest structural gaps and explain how each affects listener attention.
- Suggest one concrete edit per gap, with a bar range.
Output format — A short written comparison, a side-by-side table, a text energy curve, then two prioritised edits. Maximum 400 words. Plain language. Leave out mixing, mastering, and plugin advice.
Guardrails — Do not invent timings or energy values; if a value is missing, say so. Flag any assumption about section function. Tell the user to check the reference track's licensing before reusing any part of it.
Example — your_track_sections: intro 0:00-0:28, verse 0:28-1:10, chorus 1:10-1:52; reference_track_sections: intro 0:00-0:16, verse 0:16-0:58, chorus 0:58-1:44; genre_and_tempo: indie pop, 118 BPM.