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112.184Conceptual “The Bare Necessities”

Playfulness benefits from rotating imagined instruments:

  • tuba-like bass
  • clarinet-like response
  • dry chord stabs
  • melody alone
  • comic register jumps

Do not make it continuously thick.

Space is part of humor.