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55.83Mini-composition exercise
Create a 32-bar F-major early-swing/stride piece.
Requirements:
- two-beat stride opening
- at least three LH tenths
- F→D7→Gm→C7 turnaround
- one F♯°7 passing chord
- one walking-bass section
- one bass-only breakdown
- RH sixths
- RH octave climax
- one tritone substitution only
- return to simple stride for the ending
The arrangement should feel stylistically coherent even though accompaniment density changes dramatically.