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121.144Improvisation can reveal your personal language
After recording many improvisations:
you may repeatedly use:
- descending chromatic bass
- minor iv
- delayed melody entries
- quartal voicings
- 3+3+2 figures
- high-register sparse endings
These are:
stylistic fingerprints.