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50.40Level 24 — fixed melody + walking bass

Take your repeated phrase.

Instead of block harmony:

create bass line:

C-D-E♭-E-F-F♯-G...

or another logical path.

Now each bass note changes the implied vertical harmony.

The walking line becomes reharmonization.