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79.104Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”
This tune benefits enormously from restraint.
Let the melody be:
light
playful
exposed.
Use full harmony for:
- punchlines
- stop-time hits
- phrase endings
- stylistic exaggerations
A giant cartoon-like chord is funny precisely because the preceding texture was small.