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39.30Level 12 — dominant harmony as background field
Stay on F7 for eight bars.
Do not think:
“I have eight bars with no harmonic information.”
Think:
“I have eight bars to develop one dominant-blues environment.”
Your developmental tools are:
- riff
- rhythm
- blues/Mixolydian contrast
- register
- density
- dynamics
- articulation