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You're welcome! Good job if this was during a period of DAW adjustment (that's always scary).

Yeah, it's a good idea to do that kind of cohesion planning in advance when you can, but it isn't always in your control. I always write up a specific doc for the devs and ask them exactly what tracks they will need, that way I can start making connections from the beginning between tracks.

And just to be clear, I wasn't talking about the need for dramatic changes in the progression EVENTUALLY, but rather changes within the progression specifically after two repetitions. It's called the rule of three in classical composition (or a "sentence" in academia). It gets ignored all the time in modern pop music choruses, but ignoring it in instrumental music really doesn't work most of the time. If you have one subphrase, you can repeat that subphrase once, but the next time you repeat it, you better change it up or the listener is going to start tuning out. Here's a video for more explanation: