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64.97Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

For the funk/fusion version:

F bass riff.

Use:

G major pentatonic over F for Lydian color:

G A B D E

= 9,3,♯11,13,maj7 relative to F.

Then snap back to:

F major/minor blues vocabulary.

The contrast can be both sophisticated and playful.