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67.72Level 38 — bass and guide-tone integration

Design bass:

D-D♭-C.

Then guide-tone top line:

F-F-E.

Now add melody.

This is the full arranging stack:

melody

guide line

bass line

middle harmony.

You are no longer choosing chords as blocks.

You are composing voices.