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Soreness is NOT an indicator that you've worked your muscle so that it will grow. It simply means that enough lactic acid has accumulated in your muscles.
Muscles grow through overload, and doing drop and pyramiding sets is probably not the best way to go about it. Why would a muscle grow just because you are doing lots of reps at 40% of your 1R max?? You could get super sore by doing 200 reps at 20%, and there is no way your muscles will grow. They'll have heck of a lot of endurance though.
Its hard to build both muscle and lose fat at the same time. Both muscle and fat are energy sources to the body, and if you are in a calorie deficit (which you have to be, to lose the fat), the body isn't very likely to gain in muscle. Think about it.... each pound of muscle mass burns a lot of calories than each pound of fat mass, even just by sitting still. If you're not getting enough calories, the body will not want to gain muscles.
It really depends on your goals. If you want to gain muscle mass rapidly, you will have to bulk.
It's might be possible to lose fat and make some minor muscle gains, but definitely your progress will be slower than if you bulked. Seeing that summer is just around the corner, it might not be a good idea.
I think increasing the reps and decreasing weight while cutting is probably not the best idea. You want to maintain your heavy lifts and weights to maintain your muscle mass while cutting. Perhaps reducing the number of sets might be helpful.
I'm happy with my current workout. Just added 10lbs to my squat this week, which was surprising, considering I didn't feel sore at all after my workout last week.
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