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37.17Level 4 — anticipation

This is one of the most important concepts in this workshop.

Suppose F arrives on the next bar.

Instead of waiting for beat 1:

play the F chord on:

4& of the previous bar

and hold or let it carry into beat 1.

That is an anticipation.