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39.91Mini-composition exercise
Write 16 bars with:
- F7 as tonic for most of the piece
- one main riff
- one AAB melodic phrase
- one move to B♭7
- one C7→F7 functional return
- one ♭3→3 blues gesture
- one bar of stop-time
- final F7→F6/9 internal resolution
No more than three chord roots: F, B♭, C.
Make it feel complete.