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35.80The professional skill

The practical question is not:

“Can I provide the single academically correct Roman numeral?”

It is:

“Can I predict the next sound, voice the current harmony smoothly, improvise through it, and hear when my prediction was intentionally contradicted?”

That is what matters at the piano.