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Remove prompt repetition
Saying the same thing three ways does not triple the emphasis — it wastes budget and hides real gaps.
Three flavours of repetition
- Synonym stacking: *dreamy, ethereal, floaty, airy, celestial* — five words, one idea.
- Implied by genre: naming 808s, trap hats and sub bass inside a prompt that already says trap.
- Restated structure: describing the chorus lift in the style prompt and again beside every `[Chorus]` tag.
- Tag echo: listing an instrument in the instruments field and again in the production field with no new information.
- Emphasis doubling: 'very, extremely, heavily' in front of words that were already strong.
Why it costs you
Repetition creates the illusion of a detailed prompt while leaving whole pillars empty. A fifty-word prompt that says *atmospheric* five different ways has said one thing; a twenty-word prompt covering genre, tempo, instruments, vocal and production has said five. The second controls far more of the output.
There is also an interaction effect: heavy stacking on one dimension can overweight it, so a prompt with five ambience synonyms often returns a track that is all texture and no song.
A deduplication pass
- Group phrases by pillar; if a pillar has more than three phrases, cut to the strongest two.
- Delete any instrument that the named genre already implies, unless you are asking for unusual treatment of it.
- Remove intensifiers in front of already-strong words.
- Keep structural instructions in exactly one place — style prompt or lyric tags, not both.
- Reread and check that each remaining line adds information the previous lines did not.
Example
Practice
Paste your longest prompt into a document and sort its phrases into pillar buckets. Any bucket with more than three entries is a repetition hotspot; any empty bucket is an unfilled pillar. Move words from the first into the second — same total length, far more control — and compare the two generations.