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41.83Mini-composition exercise

Write 24 bars with only one main bass root: B♭.

Requirements:

  • one two-bar bass riff
  • one chromatic passing tone
  • one minor-pentatonic section
  • one Dorian section
  • one suspended upper-structure section
  • one bass breakdown
  • one unison climax
  • only one F7→B♭m functional cadence
  • final B♭m6/9

If it sounds like a complete composition, you have mastered the main lesson.