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77.69Recovery skill matters

During improvisation, you will occasionally lose your place.

Do not panic and reconstruct every missed chord.

Find:

  • current phrase
  • next cadence
  • next tonic
  • next obvious dominant

Re-enter the map.

This is practical musicianship.