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24.Dec
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Playing through the changes

I made a little exercise to illustrate the concept of playing an idea (a short motif or melodic cell, in this case) through the chord changes, modifying the idea to fit the chord/scale.  This is meant for practice, as it would sound pretty lame in performance...

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