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32.55Level 21 — voice-leading before fingering
Take any two slash chords.
Do not immediately find hand shapes.
Write the note sets.
Circle common notes.
Then move remaining voices by minimum distance.
Only after that choose fingering.
This prevents awkward block-chord thinking.