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39.93What changed?
Not much harmonically:
I7
IV7
V7.
Yet we changed:
- tonic chord quality
- groove
- articulation
- riff structure
- melodic inflection
- phrase rhetoric
- blues vocabulary
Again:
arrangement is multidimensional.