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39.9Level 2 — tonic riff before tonic chord
Instead of playing F7 as a block:
use a riff such as:
F-A♭-A-C
This immediately introduces the blues conflict between:
A♭ = minor 3rd
A = major 3rd.
That tension is central to blues language.