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45.71Level 35 — fixed melody, moving rhythm
Take a familiar 3-note melody:
G-A-B♭.
Play identical pitches:
first on obvious downbeats.
Then shifted into syncopated placements.
Then phrase them across the two-bar clave.
Pitch unchanged.
Style changes dramatically.