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85.137The form map should precede detail
Before spending twenty minutes perfecting a G7♭13 voicing:
know whether that bar belongs to:
intro
interlude
climax
tag
coda.
Macro before micro.
Otherwise you may polish a detail that the final arrangement does not need.