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54.84The larger lesson
During the last several workshops we have deliberately moved between extremes:
Workshop 48: high rhythmic complexity.
Workshop 50: contextual reharmonization.
Workshop 52: blues/gospel power.
Workshop 53: two-note minimalism.
Workshop 54: harmonic warmth with restraint.
This matters because mature arranging is not a ladder where every next step must be more complicated.
It is a toolbox.