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48.2Why sixteenth notes matter here

Workshop 47 mostly worked at the eighth-note level.

Now the finer grid allows much subtler displacement.

There are:

16 sixteenth notes per 4/4 bar.

That means we can build patterns of:

3

5

7

sixteenths

and let them rotate against the bar.