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64.100What we're really learning
Advanced improvisation increasingly means:
fewer indiscriminate choices.
A seven-note scale gives seven nominal possibilities.
A carefully chosen pentatonic removes two.
A triad removes four.
A motif removes almost all choice.
Restriction creates identity.