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42.30Level 12 — minor pentatonic first

E♭ minor pentatonic:

E♭ G♭ A♭ B♭ D♭

E♭ G♭ A♭ B♭ D♭

Use only these notes.

Because the meter is already challenging, keep pitch vocabulary simple.

This is the complexity-budget principle again.