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49.51Level 25 — three-bar super-cycle

Use the earlier four-beat motif against 6/4.

Actually it realigns every 2 bars, so use a different motif length if wanting three bars. For example, a motif of 9 beats against 6 realigns after 18 beats = 3 bars.

Create a 9-beat melodic phrase.

Repeat.

Now:

bar boundaries and phrase boundaries rarely coincide.