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83.106Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

Use reharmonization more sparingly.

Keep playful outer melody.

At selected long notes:

let bass walk chromatically underneath.

Use one deliberately exaggerated borrowed-minor inner line for humor.

Then return to simple harmony immediately.

A playful tune benefits from reharm that behaves like:

a wink,

not a lecture.