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77.101The larger improvisational lesson

At first, harmony feels like:

dozens of chord symbols you must survive.

Later it becomes:

a few destinations connected by familiar roads.

Eventually:

a moving field of gravitational forces that you can hear before naming.

That is where fluency comes from.