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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.