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55.88This is going directly into our later song labs

When we eventually run your requested tunes through many versions, we can ask:

What happens if the tune keeps essentially the same harmony, but the LH becomes stride?

Then:

walking swing?

Then:

New Orleans?

Then:

bossa?

Then:

funk?

Bass design alone will create surprisingly large transformations.