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81.100Ear Drill — extension or second chord?
Play D-major triad over C bass.
Then C-major triad + D-major triad with separated registers.
Can you hear the difference between:
upper-structure extension
and:
two harmonic identities?
This distinction is partly perceptual, not absolute.