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101.27Level 6 — anti-habit constraints

Choose one personal tendency and temporarily forbid it.

Examples:

  • no root-position chords
  • no fill longer than three notes
  • no repeated RH rhythm two bars in a row
  • no pedal first statement
  • no altered dominant until final section

This forces new solutions.