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27.23This is an excellent keyboard exercise
Hold:
C-E♭-G.
Then add:
A♭ + B♭.
Listen.
Then:
A + B♭.
Then:
A + B.
You are changing only two notes around the same minor tonic.
Yet three distinct minor worlds appear.