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52.31Level 16 — locked-hands introduction

Now a major new piano technique:

locked-hands / block-chord melody.

Basic idea:

melody is on top,

and lower chord tones move with it in the same rhythm.

Instead of:

melody + independent accompaniment,

the entire RH becomes one harmonized melodic block.