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7927 / 18210 · Workshop 62 — Harmonic Side-Slipping: Chromatic Planing, Approach Chords, Outside Playing, Semitone Detours, and Returning Home Without Sounding Random← prev⊞ allnext →

62.96Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

Use it more comically.

Normal cheerful phrase.

Then one brief semitone-high “wrong” copy.

Immediate return.

Almost like the piano stumbled sideways and recovered.

Because the tune has a playful personality, side-slipping can become part of the humor.