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26.25Level 6 — diminished arpeggio as melody

Instead of blocking:

B-D-F-A♭,

play it as a melodic figure.

Then land:

G

or C/E♭.

This transforms harmonic tension into melodic vocabulary.

Very useful in intros and fills.