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37.17Level 4 — anticipation
This is one of the most important concepts in this workshop.
Suppose F arrives on the next bar.
Instead of waiting for beat 1:
play the F chord on:
4& of the previous bar
and hold or let it carry into beat 1.
That is an anticipation.