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16.47Sing first
Before playing a solo:
play the chord progression.
Sing a simple melody.
Then try to reproduce it.
This is one of the best exercises because it reverses the common bad workflow:
fingers move first, ear judges afterward.
We want:
ear imagines first, fingers realize afterward.