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43.90One final analogy
Consider:
Cmaj7♯11
At first it looks complicated.
Then you compress it to:
C major + F♯ color.
Similarly:
9/8, 2+2+2+3
looks mathematically complicated.
Then you compress it to:
short-short-short-long.
Musicianship repeatedly depends on compressing complexity into relationships you can hear and feel.