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57.96The “Mack” mastery test
You truly own the tune when you can:
- start without sheet music
- recover after a mistake
- transpose it
- play melody alone
- play LH alone
- play basic harmony
- reharmonize selectively
- change bass style
- improvise a chorus
- modulate
- build a climax
- finish intentionally
without being dependent on one memorized sequence of hand movements.
That is the standard.