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68.60Level 31 — stop-time with harmonic implication

Blues:

hit C7.

Silence.

Melody/riff alone.

The harmony remains psychologically C7.

Then F7 arrives.

Stop-time is therefore partly a harmonic-rhythm phenomenon.