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81.100Ear Drill — extension or second chord?

Play D-major triad over C bass.

Then C-major triad + D-major triad with separated registers.

Can you hear the difference between:

upper-structure extension

and:

two harmonic identities?

This distinction is partly perceptual, not absolute.