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52.31Level 16 — locked-hands introduction
Now a major new piano technique:
locked-hands / block-chord melody.
Basic idea:
melody is on top,
and lower chord tones move with it in the same rhythm.
Instead of:
melody + independent accompaniment,
the entire RH becomes one harmonized melodic block.