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91.109Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”
Use:
low playful bass rhythm A.
upper response rhythm B.
Let them alternate first.
Later overlap.
For comic effect:
one section becomes increasingly rhythmically tangled—
then everyone abruptly lands together on a simple hit.
Pause.
Return to loose groove.
The clarity after the tangle is the joke.