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69.98The deeper arranging lesson

We now have four different things that people casually call “changing the harmony”:

  1. actual chord/function change
  2. new bass under same upper material
  3. new color/extension within same function
  4. new voicing/texture around the same harmony

They are not the same.

A sophisticated arranger knows which one is actually needed.