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55.89The stride trap to avoid

Do not become dependent on:

1 bass / 2 chord / 3 bass / 4 chord

as though the pattern were a law.

Learn it so thoroughly that you can:

  • omit
  • anticipate
  • walk
  • fill
  • suspend
  • stop
  • restart

without losing the two-beat identity.

That's actual stride fluency.