BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
16750 / 18210 · Workshop 120 — Writing Complete Endings and Cadences: How to Make a Piece Feel Finished, Suspended, Open, Circular, or Inevitable← prev⊞ allnext →

120.179The “one bar too few” problem

Final cadence occurs.

But listener has not had time to:

register it.

Add:

sustain

space

or:

one small callback.

Not necessarily new harmony.