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70.11Level 4 — improve bass contour

Perhaps root positions give:

C-C-F-G-C.

Can you make a more melodic bass?

Try:

C-B-A-G-F-G-C

or another contour appropriate to the phrase.

Do not worry yet what every vertical sonority is called.

Listen to the line.