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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.