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58.66Bass-style ladder
Practice RH melody unchanged while LH alone changes:
- whole-note roots
- two-beat
- stride
- walking
- New Orleans bounce
- boogie pattern
- bossa bass
- funk riff
- waltz bass
This is perhaps the most important exercise of the lab.