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92.119The deeper improvisational lesson
Your improvisation should react to groove.
A line that works over walking swing may feel wrong over funk even if:
the chord-scale relationship is identical.
Why?
Because phrase placement, articulation, density, and repetition language changed.
Rhythm is part of vocabulary.