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35.80The professional skill
The practical question is not:
“Can I provide the single academically correct Roman numeral?”
It is:
“Can I predict the next sound, voice the current harmony smoothly, improvise through it, and hear when my prediction was intentionally contradicted?”
That is what matters at the piano.