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38.98Connection to everything before

Workshop 31 taught:

compress fast harmony.

Workshop 32–36 taught:

hear harmony as layered/contextual meaning.

Workshop 37 taught:

eighth-note groove and anticipation.

Workshop 38 adds:

microscopic rhythmic placement.

You are now controlling music on three timescales:

  • whole-form harmonic direction
  • bar/phrase groove
  • sixteenth-note microtiming

That is a significant step toward arranging and improvising with real stylistic control.