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96.118Real-time priority hierarchy

When accompanying unfamiliar melody:

  1. form/pulse
  2. melody awareness
  3. key/tonic
  4. bass direction
  5. harmonic function
  6. chord quality
  7. extensions
  8. fills

This should govern attention.