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58.66Bass-style ladder

Practice RH melody unchanged while LH alone changes:

  1. whole-note roots
  2. two-beat
  3. stride
  4. walking
  5. New Orleans bounce
  6. boogie pattern
  7. bossa bass
  8. funk riff
  9. waltz bass

This is perhaps the most important exercise of the lab.