BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
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43.10Hear the bar as a sentence

The first three short groups can feel like:

question-question-question

and the final long group:

answer.

This rhetorical shape is why additive rhythms can feel so natural once internalized.