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26.98The connection to the original Nahre Sol goal
Remember the long-term goal:
take a simple melody and transform it into something much richer while keeping its identity.
This workshop gives you another transformation dimension.
You can take a simple melody and make it darker not by adding dozens of notes, but by changing:
- one bass note
- one inner chromatic voice
- one delayed resolution
- one altered dominant
That is exactly the kind of compositional control we were aiming for.