For my first prototype, I was able to retrieve several MIDI files containing music from some old video games, write the base code for the program, and feed it the MIDIs to generate my first piece. The end result was a MIDI file containing 500 notes containing the same pitch, which was not what I intended. However, this allows me to continue with my plan this week of tweaking the code to make it work.
One thing I did notice that would help me would be having a dedicated machine to train my program, because training it on my laptop was painfully slow. I plan to set that up either this week or the following one, just so that training will go much quicker.