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121.273Conceptual “Mack the Knife”
Using your legal lead sheet, repeated choruses are ideal for:
improvisation mining.
Record yourself varying:
- bass behavior
- comping
- chorus transitions
- final tags
Then preserve only:
the strongest recurring ideas.
Do not freeze every fill.