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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.