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48.2Why sixteenth notes matter here
Workshop 47 mostly worked at the eighth-note level.
Now the finer grid allows much subtler displacement.
There are:
16 sixteenth notes per 4/4 bar.
That means we can build patterns of:
3
5
7
sixteenths
and let them rotate against the bar.