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91.109Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

Use:

low playful bass rhythm A.

upper response rhythm B.

Let them alternate first.

Later overlap.

For comic effect:

one section becomes increasingly rhythmically tangled—

then everyone abruptly lands together on a simple hit.

Pause.

Return to loose groove.

The clarity after the tangle is the joke.