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38.93Mini-composition exercise
Write a 16-bar funk piece.
Rules:
- one minor vamp
- no more than two harmonic roots
- one two-bar bass ostinato
- one one-bar riff
- one ghost-note pattern
- one rhythmic displacement
- one bar of stop-time
- one Dorian 6
- one blues ♭5
- no ii–V–I
The piece must still have a clear beginning, climax, and ending.