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75.105The mature improvisational question
Not:
“Which cool scale can I use?”
But:
“What contour does this phrase need?”
Sometimes the best modern-sounding phrase uses:
C major.
Nothing more exotic than that.
But its notes are connected in a way the ear did not predict.