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61.46Do not prioritize this yet

You will encounter it.

Recognize it.

But our practical hierarchy is:

  1. melodic minor tonic
  2. altered dominant
  3. Lydian dominant
  4. Locrian ♮2
  5. everything else later as needed

That covers most real use.