I was playing around with the API but got some sus results when using minor keys expressed as b1
, b2
, etc… For example, there is a single suggestion for the progression i III
when expressed as b1,b3
… which is i III i iv i
, kind of lame. Even more shockingly, b2,b5
does not suggest b1
but b2
again, and b2,5
suggests I
(major), and b2,57
suggests nothing at all. What.
I’m wondering if maybe it’s best to express a minor key using its relative major key - for i
I could instead type 6
rather than b1
? My concern would be that then this would not understand the concept of a key center and would gravitate to a lot of V,I
s, which would be a lot of VII,III
s in minor and throw off the tonality completely.
Thanks